Farrell Delman will be leaving TMA to pursue other interests effective Dec. 31. Delman’s illustrious career spans more than 40 years as TMA’s president.
The TMA board has authorized a search for a new TMA chief executive. To help facilitate the transition process, current vice president Darryl Jayson will assume the newly created role of chief operating officer.
Jayson is well known as an information expert within the industry. His new role recognizes his contributions to the organization and ensures continuity of operations during the search and after installation of a new TMA president and CEO.
In a letter to its members, the TMA board of directors expressed its gratitude for Delman’s many years of dedicated service, hard work and leadership.
Dan Carr, a veteran consumer packaged goods and tobacco industry leader, is joining ITG Brands as president, effective Nov. 7.
Carr will assume oversight of the company’s sales, marketing and operations functions. He will report to CEO David Taylor.
“Dan comes to ITG Brands with a powerful combination of fast-moving consumer packaged goods experience and extensive tobacco qualifications in both smokeless and cigars,” Taylor said.
Carr began his career in the consumer packaged goods industry with Scott Paper, which later merged with Kimberly-Clark Corp. He joined General Cigar in 1996 and became vice president of sales in 1998. He went on to accept positions of increasing responsibility and leadership that broadened his scope to marketing, operations and supply chain, ultimately serving as president of General Cigar, which was fully acquired by Swedish Match in 2005 and now owned by Scandinavian Tobacco Group.
“Dan has aligned teams of varying sizes and has done so multiple times in the tobacco industry,” Taylor said. “He understands distribution channels, regulatory challenges and the different levers that can be pulled to drive growth. He recognizes what it takes to drive a U.S. business in collaboration with a global strategy.”
In addition to a B.S. degree in business administration from Ramapo College in New Jersey, Carr’s education and accreditation background includes the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
He serves on various boards, including those of the Cigar Association of America and the Tobacco Merchants Association. Carr also serves the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business executive advisory council.
Based in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, ITG Brands was formed in 2015 and is the third-largest tobacco manufacturer and marketer of tobacco products in the United States.
Its brands include Winston, Kool, USA Gold and Maverick cigarettes, and Dutch Masters, Backwoods and Phillies cigars. The company also sells Blu e-Cigarettes.
Huub Vizee has been elected president of the Coresta board for two years.
Vizee has spent the past 29 years working within the tobacco industry in many different areas, including leaf, research, engineering, quality, product development and corporate affairs.
Since September 2011, he has worked for Delfortgroup, based in Wattens, Austria, as head of regulatory affairs. In this role he is responsible for dealing with all tobacco-related regulatory issues worldwide.
In his previous positions, he worked for Van Nelle, Douwe Egberts and Imperial Tobacco, where his last position was head of group regulatory development.
In this role he was responsible for leading Imperial Tobacco’s regulatory engagement as an active participant on global, regional and market levels. In this role he also represented Imperial Tobacco on the board of CECCM, the board of ECMA and the board of Coresta.
Roberta Ghilardi has been heading business operations at the Darmstadt-based mechanical engineering company Goebel Schneid- und Wickelsysteme GmbH since 1st August 2014. The previous CEO, Dr Ralf Enderle, will remain with the company. A new CEO will lead the company starting in 2015.
Roberta Ghilardi has a degree in engineering and has worked for IMS Deltamatic Group since 2000. As head of Business Process Reengineering and Controlling, she is primarily responsible for the integration of new companies into the Italian mechanical engineering group. She has also successfully managed projects to optimise quality and processes. Roberta Ghilardi will conduct her duties as interim CEO at Goebel.
After obtaining his doctorate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Darmstadt, Dr Enderle began his professional career at Maschinenfabrik GOEBEL GmbH in 1985. He first worked as an assistant before becoming the head of the design department for slitter rewinders. He was later named Technical Director for the Paper and Films business unit. In 2001, Dr Enderle was appointed to the management of the newly founded GOEBEL Schneid- und Wickelsysteme GmbH and became its CEO in 2010.
Alex Goldman has joined Swisher International as president of its new premium cigars division, Royal Gold Cigars. Goldman’s tenure began on Jan. 2, 2013, to spearhead the division specifically created to build upon his extensive industry experience.
“Alex’s leadership of House of Oxford/Mom’s Cigars as its owner and president for the past 20 years positions him perfectly to develop and market our new premium cigar lineup,” says Peter Ghiloni, president of Swisher International.
Goldman will lead Royal Gold Cigars in developing and introducing various cigar lines to compete with key players in the premium cigar market. Test marketing of the new line up is planned for April with a national launch set for the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association trade show in July in Las Vegas.
“As a fourth-generation tobacconist, I have cemented relationships that will enable Royal Gold Cigars to develop, source and market an array of premium products that customers will enjoy at competitive price points,” Goldman explained. “Operating as a division of Swisher International gives Royal Gold Cigar the opportunity to tap into Swisher’s leadership and leverage its resources, while maintaining an independent business model.”
“This as an exciting new chapter for Swisher International, which aligns with our growth plans in several key areas of the overall tobacco market,” adds Ghiloni.
