Kemet Announces Changes in Its Global Sales Organization |
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Kemet Electronics Corp.
P.O. Box 5928
Greenville, SC, 29606
USA
Press release date: January 5, 2008
Greenville, South Carolina (January 5, 2009) - KEMET Corporation (NYSE:KEM) has announced today the following organizational changes in the Global Sales organization that became effective January 1, 2009.
Don Lung (Lung Kai Yu) Senior Director, Sales-NE Asia, is promoted to VP, Sales-Asia/Pacific Region and will be a member of KEMET's Leadership Team in this new role. Lung joined KEMET in 1996 as the General Manager, Greater China; subsequently, he was promoted to Area Director, then Senior Area Director before being named Managing Director, Northeast Asia in 2003. Prior to joining KEMET, he had previously worked in various sales positions for AMP, DuPont and Amphenol. Lung has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and resides in Hong Kong.
John Schneider, VP, Sales - Asia/Pacific Region is returning to the United States, as the VP, Sales - Global Accounts. In this new role, Schneider will lead the reorganization of the Company's customers with multiple international locations into a select group of global accounts. This will allow KEMET to better serve major customers through a dedicated group of global account managers who will be responsible for coordinating activities where multiple sales representatives interface with the same account around the world.
Both Lung and Schneider will report to Marc Kotelon, SVP, Global Sales.
EuGene Ng, Director, Sales-SE Asia, is promoted to Director, Sales-Asia/Pacific Distribution.
Vincent Peck, EMS Manager, Asia/ Pacific is assigned to Director, Sales-SE Asia.
Both Ng and Peck will report to Don Lung, VP, Sales-Asia/Pacific Regions.
"We have a talented and senior group of sales professionals that afford us the opportunity to restructure in a way that will better meet the needs of our customers," stated Marc Kotelon, KEMET's SVP, Global Sales.
KEMET Corporation (KEM) applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world. KEMET offers the world's most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. KEMET's common stock is listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KEM.
Additional information about KEMET can be found at http://www.kemet.com .
Contact: Dean W. Dimke Director of Corporate and Investor Communications 954-766-2806 deandimke@kemet.com
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