Justin Cravens has been named South Central regional sales manager for Ridewell Suspensions. His territory includes Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama. He has been with the company since 2000 as North Central regional sales manager. Filling Cravens' former territory is Phil Riley, who will cover North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan. Riley most recently was regional manager for Talbert Mfg.
Transportation Technologies Industries Inc's board of directors has named Andrew M Weller to succeed Thomas Begel as chief executive officer. Begel will remain as chairman. Weller has served as TTI president and chief operating officer since January 2000 and as a director since September 1994. TTI has appointed Adnan Hiros director of engineering services. Since November 2002, Hiros served as senior account engineering manager.
Airgo Systems Inc has added Larry Orsborn and Phillip Stevenson to its North American sales team. Orsborn has worked in technical sales and management with companies such as Carlisle Motion Control, Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems, WABCO, and Gelco Truck Leasing. Stevenson has served with firms including Uniroyal, Bridgestone/Firestone, Oliver Rubber Co, and Armstrong.
Chris Glinka has joined Reflexite Americas as an industry manager for the company's transportation group. Based in Chicago IL, he replaces Ken Delegan, who was promoted to Americas sales manager. Glinka previously worked for Associated Spring/Barnes Group of Plymouth MI as a regional sales representative.
Bob Krohn, most recently Webb Wheel Products' Aftermarket Business Unit sales manager for the western United States and Canada, has accepted the newly created position of strategic account manager responsible for major OES accounts in the United States and Canada. Kevin Holton has been named sales manager for the Aftermarket Business Unit. He joined Webb from Truck-Lite and will be covering primarily Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Kansas.
Super Products has appointed Charles “Chuck” H Higginbotham as western regional manager for contractor and industrial sales, and he will be based in Portland OR. He has more than 25 years of sales experience, most of it in equipment sales.
Gunite Corp has appointed Dale Christiansen plant manager for the Gunite foundry operation in Rockford IL. He most recently was general supervisor — quality control.
SkyBitz, a satellite-based asset monitoring and information management service, has named Richard “Rick” Burtner the new chief executive officer. He has served as interim CEO since April 2004 after joining the company as chief financial officer in May 2003.