AED’s Brian McGuire Named Chairman-Elect of NAW AEC

Members of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) announced Brian McGuire of the Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) as chairman-elect of its Association Executives Council (AEC). The announcement came during the association’s first-ever Digital Summit this week.

McGuire joins the following wholesale distribution industry leaders who were also elected as NAW Officers for 2021:

Chairman

Michael Medart, president and CEO, Medart Engine & Marine (St. Louis, Missouri)

Chairman-Elect
Jeff McLendon, president and CEO, U.S. Lumber (Duluth, Georgia)

First Vice Chairman
Michael DeCata, president and CEO, Lawson Products, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois)

Second Vice Chairman
Larry Stoddard, president and CEO, RelaDyne LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Secretary
Kevin Short, president and CEO, ORS Nasco and Medco Tool (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Eric Hoplin, president and CEO, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (Washington, DC)

Completing the NAW 2021 board of directors:

Treasurer and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Budget and Finance, George Pattee, chairman of the board of Parksite Inc., Batavia, Illinois

Chairman of the AEC, Kenyon Gleason of the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers

Past Chairman of the AEC, Rick Long of the Petroleum Equipment Institute

For more information on NAW, visit https://www.naw.org/.