Posted April 25, 2011
NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence elects chair
Directors of the NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence elected Joseph Nettemeyer as 2011 chairman of the board.
Nettemeyer is president and CEO of Valin Corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
He succeeds Byron Potter, president and CEO of Dallas Wholesale Builders Supply Inc., headquartered in DeSoto, Texas.
"Our management team at Valin Corporation has read many of the NAW Institute's research studies over the years. We've applied the practical guidance to our business and we've definitely seen improvements and gotten valuable results. I believe the NAW Institute continues to do groundbreaking research and I look forward to working with the NAW Institute as chairman and contributing to its ongoing research work for our industry," said Nettemeyer.
In addition, Art Kostaras, president of Womack Machine Supply Co. in Dallas, and
George Pattee, chairman and CEO of Parksite Inc., Batavia, Ill., were elected to four-year terms on the NAW Institute board. Deborah Hamlin, executive director of Irrigation Association, Falls Church, Va., and William Parsley, president of Carswell Distributing Company, Winston-Salem, N.C., were re-elected to the board.
