The Solberg Company, the world’s foremost innovator of firefighting foam concentrates and systems hardware announced today the appointment of John Boyer as General Manager, Asia-Pacific Region. Mr. Boyer entered the fire protection business in 2004 serving in various sales, business development and management capacities. John joins Solberg from Tyco Fire Protection Products were he most recently held the position of Regional Sales Manager, Southeast Asia and Mongolia.
Mr. Boyer brings a total of twenty-three years’ experience in international sales and business development of industrial products through distribution channels to Solberg. He is a customer-oriented executive manager with the proven ability to organize and motivate multicultural sales teams for accelerated growth, channeling partners to deliver results for both organizations. John holds a BCom – in Marketing and Commercial Law from the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), South Africa.
Solberg also announced the appointment of Lloyd Keen as the company’s logistics and operations officer to replace Peter Coulton who retired after a forty-six year career in the fire protection industry.
Peter started his career with 3M in 1969 and later in 2007 with Solberg. Solberg’s Asia-Pacific Business Operation is based in Sydney, Australia where the company has a manufacturing operation for firefighting foam concentrates (including RE-HEALING™ Foam) and serves the entire Asia-Pacific region.
A technological breakthrough, RE-HEALING foam is an innovative high-performing, environmentally sustainable firefighting foam used to suppress Class B fuels, prevent re-ignition of liquid spills and control hazardous vapors.
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