RSG Makes Changes in Executive Suite

Refrigerated Solutions Group (RSG) recently announced several executive changes.

Kevin Fink will be transitioning out of his CEO role effective July 31st, as part of a planned transition following the sale of RSG from Standex to Ten Oaks Group.

RSG also announced the appointment of Aaron Brown as president of RSG effective August 17th.

Brown was mostly recently at IPA, a Roper Technologies operating company that manufactures linen and specialty uniform distributions solutions. He let the Services business including implementation, customer support, field maintenance, international distributors and strategic partnerships. Prior to IPA, Brown held various leadership positions at MedAssets in in finance and operations before building and leading the sales and commercial operations function of their technology and services business segment.

Dan Hinkle, VP of Sales for RSG, will assume the expanded role of chief commercial officer effective August 1st, responsible for all of RSG’s commercial strategy, sales, marketing, service and customer experience. Hinkle has over 30 years of sales and leadership experience and was recently promoted to vice president of sales.

John Ioannou, Ten Oaks Group operating partner, will assume the chairman role at RSG effective immediately. Ioannou has run and advised businesses ranging in size from startup to multi-billion dollar business units of Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries.

“We are all very grateful for Kevin Fink’s leadership through the ownership transition,” Ioannou stated, adding “I am delighted to welcome Aaron to RSG and see Dan take on his new role. Demonstrating extraordinary leadership and strength in times of change, they will serve RSG’s employees, customers and channel partners with all the values you want from leaders. Being a good partner and employer means being a healthy company and I’m proud of this team for making the decisions that will enable us to be stronger, healthier and more focused.”