Huyett is proud to announce our new Vice President of Sales,
Dave Audia, who will step into the
position after eight years as Huyett's Director of Sales. He
succeeds Dan Harriger, who served as
Huyett's VP of Sales for almost nine years and will retire at the
end of July.
MINNEAPOLIS, Kan., July 25,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Huyett is proud to
announce our new Vice President of Sales, Dave Audia, who will step into the position
after eight years as Huyett's Director of Sales. He succeeds
Dan Harriger, who served as Huyett's
VP of Sales for almost nine years and will retire at the end of
July.
"This organization is always looking for
new ways to push forward; Dave and Dewey are exactly who should be
at the helm of that endeavor. As Dan moves into retirement, please
extend him the best of greetings. God bless you Dan, and thank you
from the bottom of our hearts." Tim
O'Keeffe, Huyett CEO
Serving as Huyett's Director of Sales since January of 2016,
Audia assumes the VP of Sales role after working directly alongside
Harriger to develop Huyett's industry-leading reputation for
customer service and to drive sales growth for the Company and its
partners. His primary role has been to support fastener distributor
partnerships in the Northeast region and lead Huyett's Regional
Sales Managers in charge of developing the East Coast business.
Prior to joining Huyett, he held various positions in the fastener
industry from 1990 onwards, including VP of Sales at Advance
Components® from 2007–2016 and several sales roles at ARaymond
Tinnerman® from 1990–2007. Underlining his successful career is a
bachelor's degree in Business Administration/Finance from
Bowling Green State University and a
master's degree in Business Administration from Baldwin Wallace
University.
Huyett is also pleased to announce that Dewey Oxner, a seven-year member of Harriger's
team, will fulfill Audia's previous role as Director of Sales.
Oxner most recently served as Huyett's Corporate Business
Development Director for two years and as Regional Sales Manager on
the East Coast from 2017-2022. In both positions, he drove
significant sales growth as an advisor to key accounts, led sales
training initiatives for the team, and asserted himself as a
trusted industry leader. He began his fastener career at MSC
Industrial Supply® in 2014, succeeding as a Customer Sales
Specialist and Account Executive. Oxner holds two bachelor's
degrees in Corporate Finance and Business Management from the
University of South Carolina.
Noting the new leadership changes, Huyett CEO Tim O'Keeffe states:
This is an exciting new era for the Company's Sales Team. Dave
and Dewey both have excellent leadership skills and industry
expertise and have been preparing to take on these new positions
from the start. This organization is always looking for new ways to
push forward; these two individuals are exactly who should be at
the helm of that endeavor. As Dan moves into retirement, please
extend him the best of greetings as he puts down the laptop and
grabs for golf clubs and the small hands of his six grandchildren.
God bless you Dan, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
While this transition of leadership roles is taking place in one
swift movement, it was the natural product of a nearly decade-long
calculated strategy at Huyett. One of Harriger's first initiatives
when he took on the VP of Sales role in 2015 was to designate a
succession plan from within the Distribution Support Team. As he
built his Sales Team from the ground up, Harriger designed the
learning, leadership, and function of each role to prepare its
owner for the next highest position. This has helped attract
individuals who want to commit to long-term Sales careers at Huyett
while also instilling complete confidence in the team's leadership,
both inside and outside the Company.
Audia, Harriger's successor and longtime friend, spoke of this
leadership strategy while preparing for his new role:
Dan doesn't do anything without a vision and reason.
Tim (O'Keeffe) told him from the
beginning that he needed to build the best sales force in the
industry, and with Dan's forward thinking, I truly believe he has
done that. He intentionally designed a promotional path as he
expanded his team so that, when leadership changes inevitably
arose, everyone – internal and external stakeholders alike – was
fully aware and supportive of it. That was crucial in building our
trust as an industry leader in customer service.
As Harriger brings his 43-year fastener industry career to a
close, he reflects on his time at Huyett:
I am proud to have had the honor to be part of such a great
organization, one that has enabled me to assemble an outstanding
group of salespeople who care about the customer and are viewed as
trusted advisors. The business dedicates considerable time to
succession planning to ensure that the Company will have the right
leaders to continue the legacy. Dave and Dewey possess outstanding
sales leaderships skills. I am excited for what lies ahead for
Huyett, and I am indebted to all the business has provided for me
and my family.
For more information about Huyett and its extensive range of
industrial threaded and non-threaded fasteners & premium
lifting hardware, email sales@huyett.com or visit our website at
http://www.huyett.com.
About Huyett
Established in 1906 by Guy Huyett
in the "other Minneapolis," the
company is one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in
Kansas. Huyett is a leading
innovator of products and services geared to support industrial
distributors in the fastener and premium lifting hardware sectors,
delivered by customer-centric people operating in a Culture of
Excellence. - -
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