New Appointments: May 2015

Drytac has added Brad Haupt as Midwest Regional sales manager. Haupt will be tasked with building upon existing accounts and acquiring new business accounts throughout the Midwest U.S. He previously worked for GBC. Drytac has also appointed Paul Barker to the newly created position of Custom Coatings account manager- Outside Sales for Drytac Canada. He will be responsible for growing Drytac Canada’s custom coating business in the Industrial, Packaging, Automotive, Label, and Building material markets. He brings more than 28 years of outside sales experience in the plastics, printing, and packaging markets and has multi-market knowledge on how materials interact with different surfaces, packaging equipment, and environmental conditions.

Direct Sign Wholesale has promoted Andy Shannon to director of Project Management. He will be in charge of scheduling all customer projects, monitoring the execution of current production and ensuring production matches the client’s specified project parameters. He previously served as the Financial and Purchasing manager.

Exponation, LLC, which produces Digital Signage Expo and other shows, has promoted Chris Brennaman to conference manager, responsible for the oversight of educational conference programming for all events. Brennaman previously worked as digital media editor.

Universal Lighting Technologies has promoted Corinne Wilder to director of Sign Channel Development. Wilder will oversee sales and product direction for Universal’s Signa® sign channel while providing support to sign agents, sign distributors and sign customers. Wilder brings over seven years of experience at Universal to her new position.