Eriez Promotes 3 Executives

Eriez has promoted John Blicha, Greg Nowak and Chris Knoll to new positions within the company’s corporate leadership team.

Mr. Blicha has been promoted from director of global marketing and communications to senior director of global marketing and communications. He will take on an elevated role on Eriez’s corporate executive team, developing and executing global market growth strategies while continuing to provide strategic and operational direction to Eriez-USA. Mr. Blicha’s ongoing duties include overseeing all corporate advertising and public relations campaigns, the company’s websites and its participation at industry trade shows.

Greg Nowak has been promoted from technical director of research and development (R&D) to senior technical director. In this position, he will serve as a key member of Eriez’s corporate management team and provide strategic leadership to the Eriez-USA engineering team, as well as directing the company’s global R&D efforts.

Chris Knoll has been promoted from product engineering manager to director of global R&D. He will now be directly responsible for all Eriez corporate product research and development activities. According to Eriez, Mr. Knoll will use his industry expertise and project management skills to spearhead new product innovations.