around the industry People CMI Congratulates Newest Class On March 20-22, the Cleaning Management Institute (CMI) held a Train the Trainer course at the NISH of Georgia training facility. The course, which was taught by Marion Ivey and co-taught by CMI certified train-er Charles “Mickey” Crowe, graduated 11 attendees. The newest Train the Trainer grads are: Rusty Fuller, Leonard White, Rickey Spencer, Bryan Thomson, Warren Freeman, Douglas Avery, Walter Burklin, Michael Golan, Brenda Murray, Kwabena Afriyie and Mahan Jay. three regional sales representatives to its sales team. Charles Chung has been appointed region-al sales representative for the Northern New Jersey/Metro New York region, Mark Burk has been appointed regional sales rep-resentative for the Western Pennsylvania and New York/Eastern Ohio region and Jeff Wolfe has been appointed regional sales representative for the Upper Midwest U.S. region. MMMM Donates Bicycles To Children Mitch Murch’s Maintenance Management Company (MMMM) recently held a team building exercise with 40 of MMMM’s man-agement team members. MMMM team members were broken up into four teams and each team was required to assemble two bicycles; fully assem-bled bicycles and a money donation from MMMM were presented to Sarah Sheehan, director of community relations at St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. Mark Burk umf Signs Deal With Sodexo Sodexo Inc. and umf Corporation have signed a multiyear agreement whereby umf Corporation will provide its advanced anti-microbial technology, education, training and support to the more than 6,000 client partners in education, healthcare, corpo-rate, government and remote site markets served by Sodexo every day. BCA Names New Executive Director The Building Commissioning Association (BCA) has named Liz Fischer as executive director. Fisher has led the production of the indus-try’s longest running commissioning confer-ence, the National Conference on Building Commissioning, as well as the creation of a comprehensive training program for com-missioning authorities and energy auditors. Jeff Wolfe News IICRC Board Votes To Rescind Name Change The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Board of Directors has voted to return the formal name of the organization to the IICRC, keeping Clean Trust as the service mark of the organization. Updated materials with the new IICRC logo and an updated design will gradually rollout in the coming months, including ID cards, brochures, introductory video and a new website. ServiceMaster Supports Veterans Four ServiceMaster brands have joined forc-es with a new online fundraising program called Boost A Hero in an effort to help mili-tary veterans purchase franchise businesses. The four ServiceMaster brands — ServiceMaster Clean, Merry Maids, Furniture Medic and AmeriSpec — are char-ter members of the Boost A Hero program, which was recently initiated by Sprigster in partnership with the International Franchise Association (IFA). CM Leviton Appoints Vice President Of Sales Leviton recently announced the promotion of John LaMontagne to the position of vice president of sales for the company’s lighting energy solutions business unit. In his new role, LaMontagne will be responsible for the sales and specification of Leviton’s broad portfolio of lighting systems, metering and energy management products. U.S. Products Begins Facebook Campaign To help promote its new Facebook site, U.S. Products has begun a new program called “Friendship Has Its Benefits.” By “Liking” the Facebook site and becom-ing a fan, visitors become eligible for such benefits as monthly prize drawings, weekly giveaways and the big prize, a free PEX 200 heated portable extractor. NCL Adds To Sales Force National Chemical Laboratories Inc. (NCL) recently added Charles Chung To have your News and/or People item con-sidered for CM e-News Daily and “Around the Industry,” please e-mail your release to Managing Editor Aaron Baunee at [email protected]. To sign up for the free CM e-News Daily e-mail, log on to www.CM-eNews.com. 8 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • May 2012
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