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| Lawrence I. Sills, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since December 2000, became the third generation of his family to be a part of Standard Motor Products when he started as a Standard sales rep in 1967. Mr. Sills eventually served as General Sales Manager. From 1983 to 1986, he was Vice President of Operations before being appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer in May 1986. Before joining SMP, Mr. Sills was a Sales Representative, living in Africa, for the Charles Pfizer Company. |
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| William H. Turner has served as our Presiding Independent Director since January 2006 and as a director of the Company since May 1990. He is also a director of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Volt Information Sciences, Inc. and New Jersey Resources Corporation. Mr. Turner is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International College of Beirut. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Turner was the Dean of the College of Business at Stony Brook University and currently serves as the acting Dean of the College of Business at Montclair State University. Mr. Turner served as the Senior Partner of Summus Ltd., a consulting firm, from 2002 to 2004. From 1997 until 2002, he served in various capacities at PNC Bank NJ, including President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Northeast Region. He was President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. from 1996 to 1997. Prior to that time, he was the Vice-Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and its predecessor, Chemical Banking Corporation. |
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| Robert M. Gerrity has served as a director of the Company since July 1996. Mr. Gerrity currently serves as the Chairman of the Industrial Group of Glencoe Capital, a private equity firm, and is a director and principal of Gerrity Partners, a Board consulting business. Mr. Gerrity also serves as a director of Federal Signal Corporation, Rimrock Corporation and Polyair Inter Pack Inc. Formerly, he served as a director of Rubbermaid Corporation, Birmingham Steel Corporation, Harnischfeger Industries, Libralter Engineering Systems and New Holland n.v. Prior to 1995, he served in a variety of manufacturing, engineering and management positions with the Ford Motor Company including Chief Executive Officer of Ford New Holland and Ford of Brazil. |
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| Pamela Forbes Lieberman has served as a director of the Company since August 2007. Ms. Forbes Lieberman is also a director of A.M. Castle & Co. From March 2006 to August 2006, Ms. Forbes Lieberman served as interim Chief Operating Officer of Entertainment Resource, Inc. Ms. Forbes Lieberman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of TruServ Corporation (now known as True Value Company) from November 2001 to November 2004, as TruServ’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer from July 2001 through November 2001, and as TruServ’s Chief Financial Officer from March 2001 through June 2001. Prior to March 2001, Ms. Forbes Lieberman held Chief Financial Officer positions at ShopTalk Inc., Martin-Brower, and Fel-Pro Inc. Ms. Forbes Lieberman is a Certified Public Accountant. |
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| Arthur S. Sills has served as a director of the Company since October 1995. Mr. Sills was an educator and administrator in the Massachusetts school districts for thirty years prior to his retirement in 2000. Mr. Sills is the brother of Lawrence I. Sills and Peter J. Sills, and is the uncle of Eric Sills. |
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| Peter J. Sills has served as a director of the Company since July 2004 and from December 2000 until May 2004. Mr. Sills is a writer and was an attorney. Mr. Sills is the brother of Arthur S. Sills and Lawrence I. Sills, and is the uncle of Eric Sills. |
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| Frederick D. Sturdivant has served as a director of the Company since December 2001. Mr. Sturdivant has been an independent consultant and a Visiting Professor at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida since 2002. Mr. Sturdivant was Chairman of Reinventures LLC from 2000 to 2002. From 1998 to 2000, he was Executive Managing Director of Navigant Consulting. From 1996 to 1998, he was President of Index Research and Advisory Services, a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corporation. After completing his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, Mr. Sturdivant held professorships at the University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, the Harvard Business School, and an endowed chair at Ohio State University. |
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| Richard S. Ward has served as a director of the Company since July 2004. He is a private investor and legal consultant. From 1969 until 1998, he served in various capacities at ITT Corporation, including Executive Vice President and General Counsel, and served as a member of the ITT Management Committee. In 2000, Mr. Ward served as Chairman of the Large, Complex Case Committee of the American Arbitration Association. Prior to 1998, Mr. Ward served as a director of STC, plc, a British telecommunications company, and ITT Sheraton Corporation. |
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| Roger M. Widmann has served as a director of the Company since May 2005. Mr. Widmann also serves as a director of GigaBeam Corporation and Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. He currently serves as the Chairman of Keystone National Group (a private equity fund of funds), a director of the March of Dimes of Greater New York, the Vice Chair of Oxfam America, a senior moderator of the Executive Seminar at The Aspen Institute and the Liberty Fellowship (South Carolina), and a senior mentor of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Lydall, Inc., a manufacturing company, from 1974 to 2004 and was a principal of Tanner & Co., Inc., an investment banking firm, from 1997 to 2004. Prior to that time, he was the Senior Managing Director of Chemical Securities Inc. (now JPMorgan Chase Corporation). |
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| John P. Gethin, who has been in the Automotive Aftermarket for over 37 years, became Standard’s President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2000. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Gethin was our Senior Vice President of Operations. He also simultaneously held the position of General Manager, Temperature Control Division from 1998 to 2003. He was Vice President and General Manager of EIS Brake Parts Division (a former SMP business unit) from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Gethin started his career in the automotive industry in 1972 with Echlin and was also the President of Wagner Brake and Lighting for five years. |
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| James J. Burke has been Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer since October 1999. Previously he served as Director of Finance, Chief Accounting Officer and before that was Corporate Controller. He joined the Company in 1986 when SMP bought EIS Brake Parts (a former SMP division) from the Parker Hannifin Company. |
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| Carmine J. Broccole became Vice President General Counsel and Secretary in January 2006 after serving as General Counsel from August 2004 to January 2006. Before joining Standard Motor Products, Mr. Broccole was a Partner of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP where he was outside counsel to Standard for more than ten years. |
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| Dale Burks has been our Vice President Temperature Control Division since September 2006. Mr. Burks joined the Company in 1984 as a Territory Sales Manager in Seattle, eventually being named TM of the Year. He advanced within the sales organization to Zone Sales Manager for Oregon and Northern California then Area Sales Manager for the Southern California area. In 1995 he was promoted to Regional Sales Manager before becoming Director of Sales and Marketing at Four Seasons, our Temperature Control Division in 2000. |
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| Michael J. Fitzgerald was elected Vice President Marketing in May 2007. From July 2003 to May 2007, Mr. Fitzgerald held a variety of sales and marketing positions in the company, including Director of Sales and Marketing–NAPA. Prior to 2003, he worked for Echlin/Dana (acquired by SMP in 2003) as a Territory Salesman, Zone Manager, Retail Marketing Manager and Vice President of Marketing. |
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| Robert Kimbro has served as Vice President Distribution Sales since September 2006. Since he joined Standard in 1984 as a Territory Manager in Chattanooga, Mr. Kimbo has held a variety of sales positions in the company. He served as Zone Manager in Arkansas and from 1997 until his current appointment was Regional Sales Manager for the East Region. |
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| Ray Nicholas has been Vice President Information Technology since September 2006. He joined the Company in 1990 as Data Processing Manager for the Four Seasons Division. In November 2001 he was promoted to Manager Information Systems/ERP Projects. From September 2003 until September 2006, Mr. Nicholas was the Director Information Technology. |
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| Eric Sills represents the fourth generation of his family to be part of Standard Motor Products. Since September 2006, he has been the Vice President Engine Management Division. He joined the Company in 1991 and has served in various capacities in the company in Operations and Marketing. Before his current position he was General Manager, Standard Division with responsibility for manufacturing operations. |
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| Thomas S. Tesoro has served as Vice President Human Resources since September 2006 after joining the company in July 2006. From 1999 to July 2006, Mr. Tesoro served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Vertrue Inc. Previously he held senior Human Resources positions for a number of Fortune 500 companies, such as SPX Corporation, Guiness America and Hoffman-LaRoche. He began his career as an attorney specializing in labor and Employment Law. |
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| William J. Fazio has been Chief Accounting Officer since March 2008. From September 2007 to March 2008, Mr. Fazio served as Director, Corporate Accounting. From April 2001 to September 2007, he was the Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Hexcel Corporation a NYSE manufacturer of composite materials for the aerospace industry. Prior to that, Mr. Fazio was Vice President, Controller of Kodak Polychrome Graphics. Mr. Fazio is a Certified Public Accountant. An accounting graduate of Saint John’s University with an MBA in Finance from Hofstra University, Bill began his career at Price Waterhouse and is a Certified Public Accountant. |
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| Robert H. Martin has been Treasurer and Assistant Secretary since 1999. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Martin was the Controller of the Engine Management Division. From 1989 to 1993, he was the Division Controller of Stanric, our Puerto Rican subsidiary (which has since been closed.) Prior to joining Standard Motor Products, Mr. Martin held a number of financial and general management positions with multi-national corporations. He is a Certified Public Accountant. |
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