Standex International Names David Dunbar President And CEO - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Standex International Corp. (SXI) announced Wednesday that its board has appointed David Dunbar as president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, effective January 20, 2014.

Dunbar succeeds Roger Fix who, as previously announced, will become nonexecutive chairman of the board coincident with current chairman Edward Trainor stepping down from that position.

David Dunbar, 52 currently serves as president of the Valves and Controls global business unit at Pentair Ltd. He was appointed to that position in 2009 by Tyco Flow Control, prior to its merger with Pentair in 2012. He previously held a number of senior positions at Emerson Electric Co., including president, Emerson process management Europe, president, Machinery Health Management, and president, Emerson Climate Technologies Refrigeration unit.

Prior to Emerson Electric, Dunbar served in numerous industrial automation and control business roles at Honeywell International Inc., beginning as a manufacturing strategy product leader in Europe and culminating in the leadership of Honeywell's industrial automation and controls sales and services business in the western United States.