News from the October 2024 issue

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS

Pilot Precision Products promoted John Fazzio to vice president and chief operating officer. Fazzio has been the company’s chief financial officer for the past four years and previously held executive positions at Intermountain Electronics. He led Pilot’s implementation of EPICOR Kinetic enterprise resource planning (ERP) and the addition of smart inventory software to improve inventory management by providing closed-loop scheduling.

Trelleborg Medical Solutions announced the appointment of nine executive board members to lead the business area.

Kate Bartelli is vice president of Quality & Regulatory and has been with Trelleborg since 2020, having worked previously at Cirtec Medical and Boston Scientific.

Luis Cortez is the BioPharma Solutions business unit president who joined Trelleborg in 2009. He previously worked for Raytheon Technologies.

Daniel Diffenderfer is the Medical Device Solutions business unit president for Europe and formerly worked for Summit Energy Services. He has been with Trelleborg for 11 years.

Kevin Ehlert is the Medical Device Solutions business unit president for the Americas who previously worked at Ecolab and has been with Trelleborg since 2019.

Jess Gritz joined Trelleborg earlier this year as vice president of Human Resources. She previously worked at Medtronic.

Yonatan Necoechea is the Medical Device Solutions Operations business unit president. He previously worked at Essilor Luxottica and Lincoln Electric, joining Trelleborg in 2021.

Ricardo Oliveira is vice president of Finance, Information Technology, and Business Control. He started with Trelleborg this year and formerly worked at Energizer, Mondelez, and Procter & Gamble.

KJ Tan is operations president for APAC and has been with Trelleborg since 2001. He previously worked for Hercules Rubber.

Giovanni Tricarico is director of information technology and has been with Trelleborg for 10 years. He previously held positions at Lafarge and IBM.