Brush Engineered Materials Inc. Names Gregory Chemnitz as Vice President, General Counsel.CLEVELAND -- Brush Engineered Materials Brush Engineered Materials Inc. is a multinational company specializing in high performance engineered materials emphasizing the qualities of strength, reliability, miniaturization and weight savings, thermal dissipation, electrical conductivity and reflectivity. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BW) announced today that Gregory Chemnitz has joined the Company as Vice President, General Counsel. Mr. Chemnitz has responsibility for the overall planning and management of the Company's legal affairs, including global intellectual property, commercial and transactional matters, litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , mergers and acquisitions. He reports to Richard J. Hipple, Chairman, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . John J. Pallam, who had been serving as Vice President, General Counsel, has been appointed Vice President, General Counsel of Brush Wellman Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary. Mr. Pallam's responsibilities will focus on the litigation and insurance issues pertinent to Brush Wellman. Mr. Chemnitz joined Brush Engineered Materials from Avery Dennison Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) produces pressure-sensitive materials (such as self-adhesive labels), office products, and various paper products. R. Stanton Avery founded Avery in 1935. Avery Dennison Corporation was created in 1990 by merger of Avery and Dennison. Corporation in Mentor, Ohio Mentor is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 50,278 at the 2000 census. In July 2006, CNNMoney.com ranked Mentor 68th in a list of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in America. In 1876 James A. , where he had been Assistant General Counsel, Americas. At Avery Dennison, he had responsibility for the legal affairs of several divisions including worldwide responsibility for the Roll Materials Division, the Company's largest business unit. He joined Avery Dennison in 1992 as Divisional Counsel and also served for three years as Senior Counsel, Europe, based in The Netherlands. Mr. Chemnitz's prior experience also includes corporate law assignments as an associate of Benesch, Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and Thompson Hine LLP, and in insurance for the Progressive Corporation. Commenting on the announcement, Mr. Hipple said, "I am pleased to welcome Greg to Brush. His wealth of experience globally is a strong asset to our organization and an excellent complement to our executive management team." Mr. Chemnitz is a 1984 graduate of Georgetown University's Law Center and School of Foreign Service where he earned a Juris Doctorate and master's degree. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. Mr. Chemnitz also has a diploma from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1984 and is a member of the Ohio Bar Association, American Corporate Counsel Association and the Cleveland International Lawyers Group. Brush Engineered Materials Inc. is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, supplies worldwide markets with beryllium beryllium (bərĭl`ēəm) [from beryl ], metallic chemical element; symbol Be; at. no. 4; at. wt. 9.01218; m.p. about 1,278°C;; b.p. 2,970°C; (estimated); sp. gr. 1.85 at 20°C;; valence +2. products, alloy products, electronic products, precious metal products, and engineered material systems. |
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