Stan Reid, current vice-president of North and South America, has been appointed as interim leader after Joel Sappenfield recently left the company.

Mr Reid has almost 40 years of experience in the industry and has been at Cobb for 20 years in a variety of roles, including US sales manager (2001-2002), director of sales and service (2002-2003), general manager of North American business (2003-2005), and vice-president of Asia and North American business units (2005-2007) before eventually overseeing all global business units in 2007.