STR Hires President of Quality Assurance Division
Enfield, CT, August 31, 2009 - Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STR) today announced that Mark A. Duffy has joined the company as President of its Quality Assurance Division. He will report directly to Dennis Jilot, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STR.
Mr. Duffy will have full responsibility for all strategic and operational plans for STR's Quality Assurance Division, which has laboratories and offices in over 30 countries across six continents. STR provides testing, audit, accreditation, and responsible sourcing services to help ensure that clients have the highest level of confidence in the quality, safety, and social standards of their products and systems. STR works with companies around the globe in the chemical, electronics/electrical equipment, food, garments/textiles, general merchandise, household, nutritional supplement, personal care, pharmaceutical, and toy/toy premium product categories.
"We are very excited to have Mark Duffy join STR's management team. He brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record as a strategic leader to his new position," said Dennis Jilot, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STR.
Mr. Duffy has 25 years of experience in a wide range of consumer products and food ingredients businesses. Most recently, Mr. Duffy spent seven years as President of Griffith Laboratories USA. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Sales, North America for the Johnson Wax Professional (now JohnsonDiversey), a division of SC Johnson. Previously, Mr. Duffy was Director of Sales for Food Service for the Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. He also held several sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility in the Food Service Division of Nestlé USA.
About STR
Specialized Technology Resources, which was founded in 1944, provides testing, audit, accreditation, and responsible sourcing services to help ensure that clients have the highest level of confidence in the quality, safety, and social standards of their products and systems. Based in Enfield, CT, STR has sophisticated laboratories and offices in over 30 countries across six continents, and the reach to provide audit services in over 140 countries around the world. Visit STR at http://www.STRQuality.com.
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