BEV-AIR TAPS WARD FOR SENIOR SALES & MARKETING POST

Beverage-Air has appointed Jennifer Ward as senior v.p.-sales and marketing. Ward, who joined the company in 2005, has served as v.p.-sales since the Ali Group acquisition of Beverage-Air in May ’08. In her new post at the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based commercial refrigeration manufacturer, Ward will be responsible for all domestic sales and marketing; she’ll be reporting directly to company Pres. Rob August.

Ward has been in the E&S industry since 1992 when she joined Cleveland Range, (formerly Enodis), a Manitowoc Co., and later worked as a sales executive with Zink Foodservice Group, the Ohio-based manufacturers’ rep firm.