People – September 2005

• Water Treatment Technologies of Hampton, N.H., hires John Fallon as national sales manager. His 20 years of sales experience in the stone industry includes the last eight with equipment distributor AGM.
• Howard Garvey is the new operations manager for Delta Diamond Tools in Southfield, Mich. Garvey is a 20-year veteran of the stone-and-tile business, most recently as manager of T.J. Ceramic Tile Sales in Farmington Hills, Mich.
• Marmo Machinery USA appoints Josh Bozarth as CNC specialist, reporting to George Prytash, Marmo’s service manager. He previously coordinated logistics and supply-chain management for the Southfield, Mich., company’s line of stone-production equipment.
• Abrasive Technology adds James A. McNair Jr. and Keith Torrance as associates for its business development and sales processes. McNair, with 25 years of technical sales and management, will handle Indiana and Michigan for the Lewis Center, Ohio, company; Torrance, with 20 years in the computer/processing industry, will share responsibility for the Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) market for the United States and Canada.
• Steve A. Raish joins Ceramic Tile and Stone Consultants LLC (CTaSC) as a forensic consultant/investigator and a ceramic-tile- and stone installation trainer. Raish, a California-licensed installer of ceramic tile and stone, comes to the San Diego-based education and research unit from Laticrete International.
• Universal Laser Systems Inc. adds Ron Emerman as director of finance and information management, and David Wilhite as its marketing coordinator. Emerman brings 30 years of domestic and international managerial experience to the Scottsdale, Ariz., company, and recently served as COO/CFO of Imaging Logistics Corp. Wilhite’s experience includes more than 20 years in advertising and marketing.