AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION—Alfred Gaspar, to president and chief executive officer, replacing the retiring Gene Gardner—was executive vice president. BRANICK INDUSTRIES INC. —Gil Schoener, to president—was vice president of sales and marketing.
CONTINENTAL TEVES, N.A. —Jim Gill, to director of public relations—was public relations manager.
COOPER TIRE & RUBBER CO.—Robert Doxsey, to director of marketing administration for the tire group—was manager of customer service.
John Kairys, to national sales manager for the tire group's retail division—was business development manager in sales and marketing.
DENMAN TIRE CORP.—Glenn Moore, to sales manager for the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario—was sales manager of Canadian Supply & Tire Co.
Dennis Yokota, to sales manager for the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island—was owner of Tire Network Inc., a buying group.
GOODYEAR DUNLOP TIRES NORTH AMERICA LTD.—William Armson, to southeast regional manager—was a Dunlop account specialist.
Paul Kane, to eastern regional manager—was a Dunlop account executive.
Philip Waters, to brands and marketing manager, responsible for supervising and directing product positioning for customer Heafner Tire Group—was southeast regional manager.
MAINE INDUSTRIAL TIRES LTD.—Curtis Brown, to director of product marketing, pneumatics—was manager of industrial tire sales at Continental General Tire Inc.
MISSOURI WHEELS—Sheila Bjorkland, to West Coast regional sales representative—was regional sales manager for Optima Wheel Inc.
OLIVER RUBBER CO.—Nancy Opperman, to interim customer services manager, replacing Chad O'Hara, who was promoted to customer service manager for Cooper Tire—had managed the customer service operation at Hercules Tire & Rubber Co.
PATCH RUBBER CO.—Jim Davis, to West Coast regional sales manager—was a sales representative with Myers Tire Supply.
Harold Seger, to technical director—was a plant chemist and project engineer with Parker Hannifin's JBL Division.
Jeff Young, to sales manager for tire repair and retread products—was regional sales manager.
RUBBER TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL INC.—Thomas Reichman, to executive vice president and chief operating officer—was president of Internet Culinary Corp.
Trevor Webb, to director of marketing—was founder of Eclexion Designs Inc., a furniture company, which he recently sold.