Filippo Berti, Chief Executive Officer
of Ali Group North America announced today the appointment of Brad Willis to
the position of Chief Financial Officer for Ali Group North America,
effective October 1, 2014.
Willis will be transitioning from his role as Chief Financial Officer at
Beverage-Air, a division of the Ali Group. In his new role as Chief
Financial Officer for Ali Group North America, he will be responsible for
coordinating and overseeing the general financial matters throughout the
Group companies within North America, namely: Aladdin Temp-Rite, ACP/Amana,
Belshaw/Adamatic, Beverage-Air, Burlodge North America, Carpigiani U.S.A.,
the Champion Group including Champion – BiLine – Moffat – Moyer Diebel, CMA,
Edlund, Electro Freeze, Eloma, Ice-O-Matic, Scotsman, Rancilio North America
and Victory Refrigeration. Willis will report directly to Filippo Berti,
Chief Executive Officer of Ali Group North America, while receiving much of
the day-to-day direction from Rich Gleitsmann, Chief Operating Officer of
Ali Group North America.
Mr. Willis has extensive experience in the commercial foodservice equipment
industry. In his most recent role as Chief Financial Officer of
Beverage-Air, he was responsible for the Finance, Human Resources and IT
Departments collectively. Willis was an integral part of the team which
successfully renewed the Beverage-Air company, making it a leading
refrigeration brand in the foodservice equipment industry. In addition to
his tenure at Beverage-Air, he served as Controller for seven years at
Southbend, a division of the Middleby Corporation, based in North Carolina.
Brad Willis holds a BS Degree in Business and an MBA from Indiana
University.
About the Ali Group
The Ali Group is an Italian corporation with its headquarters located in
Milan, Italy. The company, through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures,
markets and services a broad line of commercial and institutional
foodservice equipment used by major restaurant and hotel chains, independent
restaurants, hospitals, schools, airports, correctional institutions,
canteens, etc.
The Ali Group employs over 8,000 people in 26 countries and, in terms of
sales, is one of the world’s two largest groups in this industry. It has 55
manufacturing facilities in 14 countries and sales and service subsidiaries
in Europe, North America, Russia, Japan, China, the Middle East, Australia
and New Zealand.
For more information on Ali Group products and services, please visit our
website at
www.aligroup.com.
Ali Group North America Appoints Brad Willis As Chief Financial Officer
