Cleveland — The board of directors of VSI Global, LLC, a portfolio company of Lakewood Capital, LLC and Spartacus Partners LLC, has named Jesse B. (JB) Blackwelder as the new chief financial officer of VSI. Blackwelder joins VSI having most recently served as CFO of Crown Battery Manufacturing Companies.
“I am extremely pleased to have someone of JB’s caliber and experience joining the senior management ranks of VSI,” says Roger Knight, chairman of VSI and managing partner of Lakewood Capital and Spartacus Partners. “Since our acquisition of the company in February 2015, we have been putting in place the infrastructure and building blocks to ensure state-of-the-art service and care to our rapidly expanding customer base. JB is an integral part of that process and we are confident he will contribute significantly to managing our growth over the coming years.”
VSI Global is an international provider of repair and remanufacturing services to a broad client base, including a number of the largest retail companies in the world. The company’s services provide its customers with a turnkey operation, lowering overall maintenance costs, increasing efficiency at the operations and corporate levels, and providing data analytics valuable to identifying and supporting best practice initiatives. For more information, visit www.vsiglobal.com.
SOURCE: VSI Global, LLC