Matco-Norca promoted Phillip Lewis to vice president of commercial sales. He previously was southern regional sales manager. Brian Jennings was promoted to vice president of industrial sales after previously serving as assistant vice president of sales.

United Pipe & Steel and Merfish Pipe & Supply announced Jeff Fainberg has joined the team as an outside sales representative for the metropolitan New York City and southwest Connecticut region. Fainberg previously worked for United Pipe from 2008 to 2015. Since 2015, he continued to work with plumbing distributors in New York City.

Taco Comfort Solutions welcomed Jason O’Neill as the company’s new regional manager for wholesale products in the western United States. O’Neill has more than 20 years of experience in a variety of sales management positions with industry companies such as Uponor and Bosch.

HARDI expanded its membership and marketing teams with the recent hires of Sarah Jilbert to the post of account manager on the association’s membership team, and Emily Frost to the post of content manager.

MIFAB promoted Jason Gremchuk from engineering manager to vice president —operations. Gremchuk has been with the company for more than 10 years. MIFAB also promoted Biswarup Bhattacharjee from director of purchasing to its executive management team as vice president — supply chain.

Plumbing Manufacturers International named Viega’s Martin Knieps and Delta Faucet’s Michael Martinez to its board of directors. Both individuals will serve terms through 2020. Knieps is Viega’s director of technical marketing, while Martinez is the product compliance manager at Delta.

Rheem Director of Digital Marketing Brian White has been appointed to the Continental Automated Buildings Association Board of Directors. CABA is a nonprofit industry association that provides information, education and networking to help promote advanced technologies for the automation of homes and buildings.

Manufacturers rep firm Sweeney Rogers Geraghty announced a bevy of recent hires. SRGI named Bill Paige commercial territory manager for Upstate New York, Toby Williams territory manager for northern Maine, Steve Johnson territory manager for western New York and Tim Lawler commercial territory manager for metro Boston. Lawler previous worked at the firm.

Northway Marketers promoted Jim Cherubini to regional vice president for the Northeast. Cherubini has been with Northway since 2011 as a territory manager, representing multiple manufacturers’ products and providing support to all the distributors and contractors in his area, the firm noted.

HVAC equipment and parts distributor O’Connor Co. has become a Panasonic distributor of VRF equipment to customers in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. O’Connor is a subsidiary of Munch’s Supply. In other O’Connor news, the distributor received the ClimateMaster Distinguished Dealer Award for 2019.

Plumbing products manufacturer MIFAB announced Texas-based Pepco Sales and Marketing has joined the MIFAB family as a manufacturers representative. Established in 1965, Pepco will stock MIFAB products in its Dallas warehouse covering North Texas and Oklahoma.