{"id":22154,"date":"2024-12-04T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=22154"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:48:03","slug":"changes-to-etim-uks-board-of-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/changes-to-etim-uks-board-of-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to ETIM UK\u2019s Board of Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ETIM UK Board of Management has a new Chair with Nico van der Merwe, CEO UK and Ireland at Signify, taking over the role following the retirement of Rexel UK\u2019s CEO, Edgar Aponte.<\/p>\n<p>A new face on the Board is Glyn Prestwood, Managing Director of Stearn Electric Co. Glyn is also on the Board of the Electrical Distributors\u2019 Association (EDA).<\/p>\n<p>ETIM UK, one of 19 country members of ETIM International, is a partnership between the Electrical Distributors\u2019 Association (EDA) and the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF). These two trade associations now work closely together to champion the standard for the electrotechnical sector, and building materials, HVAC and plumbing sectors respectively.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22156\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22156\" class=\"wp-image-22156 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/nico-196x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/nico-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/nico-98x150.png 98w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/nico-327x500.png 327w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/nico.png 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico van der Merwe, CEO UK and Ireland at Signify<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22155\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22155\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22155\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-1080x1620.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Glyn-PrestwoodStearn-Electric-Co-Ltd-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glyn Prestwood, Stearn Electric Co Ltd<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ETIM UK Board comprises:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Chair: Nico van der Merwe, Europe West SVP, CEO UK&amp;I, Signify<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Richard Appleton, Head of Digitalisation, EDA<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Oz Bham, Business Development Manager, BMF<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Richard Hill, Chair of the BMF and Vice Chair of ACO Technologies<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Margaret Fitzsimons, CEO, EDA<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 John Newcomb, CEO, BMF<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Glyn Prestwood, Managing Director, Stearn Electric Co<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Tim Rowbottom, Managing Director, Collier &amp; Catchpole<\/p>\n<p>ETIM offers a clear-cut way to logically structure product data. The ETIM data standard provides such as structure for technical products and ensures uniformity in shared product information. Inside the EDA\u2019s data pool \u2013 EDATA \u2013 the technical information for electrotechnical products is organised according to the ETIM standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ETIM UK Board of Management has a new Chair with Nico van der Merwe, CEO UK and Ireland at Signify, taking over the role following the retirement of Rexel UK\u2019s CEO, Edgar Aponte. A new face on the Board is Glyn Prestwood, Managing Director of Stearn Electric Co. 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