Esko has appointed Leonardo Cruz as general manager of Latin America. Cruz will create regional strategies to build both direct and indirect Esko sales, expand service and customer support coverage in Mexico, Central America, and South America, and provide marketing support for the region. Cruz brings extensive experience building direct and indirect sales strategies, service channels and new business development and marketing in Brazil and Latin America.
FSR has promoted Ken Heinis to engineering project manager. Heinis is responsible for driving production of all the company’s new, revised or upgraded products, as well as its custom projects. Heinis will also take a more active role in the scheduling and tracking of FSR’s development projects company-wide. He will ensure forecasts stay on target, and deadlines are met. In addition, he will continue to be FSR’s liaison to both UL and Intertek (ETL) product safety approval agencies and handle all product certifications as well as agency follow-up service inspections. He is also one of the company’s software testers for the Flex control line, and teaches the weekly Flex Training Classes. Heinis joined FSR five years ago after many years of engineering and project management experience within the lighting industry