Core Brands Appoints Ashley Parkinson to Position of South Central Regional Sales Manager

Core Brands, a Nortek company (NASDAQ: NTK), today announced the appointment of Ashley Parkinson to the position of South Central Regional Sales Manager, reporting directly to James Koenig, Core Brands Director of Sales — CI Channel. 

“Ashley brings a tremendous amount of experience in the sales and marketing of consumer electronics and CI products to Core Brands, experience that is going to make an immediate impact on the quality of our dealers’ local business development programs,” Koenig said today.  “Ashley is also already very familiar with our CI products because she comes to us directly from New Era Marketing, our sales rep firm for the Texas region.  As a result she has hit the ground running!”

Ashley Parkinson’s 20 years of industry experience includes a broad and varied background in sales, marketing, and new business development.  Her direct experience includes managing sales to large national retailers as well as diverse vertical channels like the military, national and regional distributors, and systems integrators.  She has overseen both brand and product launches as well as the formation of strategic partnerships to drive sales.

Parkinson comes to Core Brands from New Era Marketing, based in Dallas, Texas, where she served as Sales Principal with responsibility for developing business throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana through an account base that included national and independent retailers, custom installation dealers, regional and national distributors.  Before this, she held a number of sales positions from 2000—20013 at Era Marketing, the predecessor firm to New Era Marketing. 

From 1995 to 2000 Parkinson was a Project Manager at Pritchard Associates, Inc., the Dallas, Texas based full service commercial property development management firm.  Before this, from 1993 until 1995 she was a freelance producer for NewsOne with primary responsibility for determining the daily composition of the news feed for the Southwestern Region including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana ABC affiliates. 

NanoLumens® Appoints Gary Feather to Position of Executive Vice President of Operations

Gary Feather, former Senior Vice President of LED Lighting at Sharp Electronics, will play a strategic role in helping NanoLumens® meet the challenges posed by record-setting growth.

NanoLumens®, the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor LED display solutions, today announced that Gary Feather, the former Senior Vice President of LED Lighting at Sharp Electronics, has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Operations, effective immediately.

According to NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope, the appointment puts one of the world’s most renowned experts in display technology, imaging, lighting and energy systems in charge of all engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management operations at a time when the company is doubling in size on a year-to-year basis.

“It is imperative for NanoLumens to maintain its rigorous standards for quality and reliability even as it grows at an unprecedented rate,” Cope said today.  “Gary Feather has the experience, the skills, and the vision that is required to help us meet the many operational challenges posed by growth.  His experience with consumer and industrial LED lighting systems, display technology and systems, image quality, and energy management is going to help us to produce the next great advance in customer engagement soutions.”

Gary Feather comes to NanoLumens from Sharp Electronics, where he served as Senior Vice President of LED Lighting from 2012 until 2014, establishing and building new Sharp Corporation products in Business to Business LED Lighting solutions and Energy Advantages Systems for the North American market.  Before this, he was Vice President, Systems, Algorithms, and Services at Sharp Laboratories of America from 1996 until 2012, responsible for managing U.S. research, development and planning for future Sharp products. From 1991 to 1996 he was Director, Display Systems at Texas Instruments, where he lead strategy, marketing, product planning, international sales and strategic alliances to create the billion dollar DLP market from the base spatial light modulator, DMD.  Texas Instruments was actually where Gary Feather began his career where he held successive positions as Manager and Director of Corporate Research before becoming Director, Display Systems.

“I am honored to join this great company at this critical juncture in its history,” Feather said today.  “I have watched this company since its inception and I believe it is destined to exceed its current pace of sales growth.  I look forward to working closely with the entire NanoLumens team to chart a future course that is even bigger, brighter and bolder than its past.”

Gary Feather is the holder of three United States Patents in Networked Video Devices (Number 7,594,245), Method for Processing Saturated Intervals in Video Sequences (Number 6,671,420), and Presence Based Technology (Number 8,356,317).  His educational background spans the fields of electrical engineering, business, and executive global leadership.  He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, a Masters of Business Administration degree in Finance and Marketing from Southern Methodist University, a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  Then in 2008 and 2009 he completed study programs in Executive Global Leadership and Business at, respectively, IMD Business School and the University of California, Berkeley Walter A. Haas School of Business.