Gary Platt Manufacturing has named Marek Petrilak, a veteran of financial management in several industries and several different countries, as the company’s new vice president of finance.
Petrilak has worked in finance departments in four countries on two continents, and will provide global production insight at a time when Gary Platt is expanding its footprint worldwide, the company said.
Most recently, Petrilak served as finance and control manager for Whirlpool Corp. in the company’s Isithebe production plant in South Africa. He has also served as senior financial analyst and as Google reporting implementation manager for Comerio’s EMEA headquarters in Italy, as finance controller for Cassinetta ETS, as finance controller for the Swedish production plant Norrkoping, and as finance analyst for Poprad, a production plant in Slovakia.
Petrilak holds a master’s degree from Economic University, Faculty of Commerce, Bratislava, Slovakia.
“Gary Platt operates a major manufacturing plant in Reno, Nevada, and our footprint stretches across North America,” said Gary Platt President Skip Davis. “As we aggressively move to expand further into Europe and into Latin America and Asia, Marek brings unique global insights that will prove extremely valuable to Gary Platt and to our customers.”
