Xerium promotes Mr. Fracasso to President, South America
18 Dec '07
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Xerium Technologies Inc announced that Eduardo Fracasso has been promoted to the position of President - Xerium South America, effective January 1, 2008. Mr. Fracasso has worked in the paper industry in Brazil for more than 27 years, with most of that time spent with Xerium and its predecessors.
He had been promoted to President - Xerium Brazil in June of this year. Mr. Fracasso succeeds Miguel Quinonez, the Company's current President - Xerium South America, who as announced in April, 2007, is retiring from the Company effective December 31, 2007.
"I want to thank Miguel for more than 40 years of service to the Company," said Thomas Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer of Xerium Technologies. "He has played significant roles in Xerium's successes over the years, most recently serving as the leader of our South American operations during a time when we have been expanding our manufacturing capability in that region.
While Miguel will be greatly missed, we are fortunate to have Eduardo, who has strong operational experience and the benefits of Miguel's mentorship over the years, to step into his role."