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  • Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC (CGE&Y), one of the world's largest management and IT consultancies, has named Paul Matthews director of supply chain for North America. Based in Newton, Mass., Matthews will be responsible for managing the company's supply chain practice in the United States, Mexico and Canada. With more than 2,000 global practitioners, CGE&Y's supply chain practice provides services ranging from supply chain strategy and architecture development, and business and technology integration to full-service process and technology outsourcing.
  • Vexure Inc., the parent of TRT Carriers Inc., has appointed Joe Dorety to the position of general manager of TRT Carriers. In his new role, he will be responsible for the company's truck/rail/truck operating unit. Dorety succeeds Mike Liantonio, who was recently promoted to vice president of operations.
  • V3 Systems, which provides supply chain execution software for global customers, has appointed Andrew Kilbourne executive vice president of engineering. His position was created to address growing customer interest in the company's new execution capability for complex enterprise-wide supply chain networks.
  • John Cullen and Jim McDonald have been appointed to senior management positions at Versa, a subsidiary of the Intelligrated corporate family. Cullen, who joined Intelligrated last year as the senior marketing executive for Intelligrated and Versa, has assumed the role of president of Versa LLC. He has more than 25 years of business experience in general management and marketing positions in consumer packaged-goods companies, including General Foods, Whitbread/Heineken, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden and The Andrew Jergens Co.

    McDonald has joined Versa as senior vice president of sales. He has more than 20 years of experience in the material handling industry, including the direct selling of capital equipment, sales management and operations management. Over the past 14 years, he has held multiple managerial positions within Alvey Systems Inc., an FKI Logistex member company.
  • Jerry Vaughn has joined Intelligrated as a system sales manager. Vaughn has more than 34 years of experience in the material handling systems marketplace. His background includes positions in engineering and project implementation, as well as systems design and account management for a variety of Fortune 500 companies.

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