Rheem Manufacturing Co. CEO, I. S. Farwell, announced the appointment of JR Jones to succeed him as president and CEO effective March 31, 2008. Farwell also announced that he will assume the new role of special advisor to the company for the remainder of 2008.
Jones was named corporate senior vice president and chief operating officer in February 2007 responsible for the company’s heating, cooling and water heating business units. Jones, a mechanical engineer, began his career with the Rheem air conditioning division in 1983 as a project engineer. After serving as principal design and development engineer at the Trane Co., director of product development and vice president R&D and product marketing at Heatcraft Refrigeration, and vice president and general manager of refrigeration products division at Lennox Industries, Jones returned to Rheem in 2002 as president of the Rheem Air Conditioning Division.
