National Association of WholesalerDistributors (NAW), (Washington, D.C.): During NAW’s Executive Summit in Washington, D.C., last week, Manuel Perez de la Mesa, president and CEO of Poolcorp, Covington, La., was elected chairman by the association’s board of directors. He succeeds Dan Blaylock, president of Adams-Burch Inc., Landover, Md. Also elected as NAW Officers for 2015 were: Chairman-Elect - Richard Schwartz, WinWholesale Inc., Dayton, Ohio; First Vice Chairman - John Tracy, Dot Foods Inc., Chesterfield, Mo.; Second Vice Chairman - Joseph Nettemeyer, Valin Corp., San Jose, Calif.; Secretary - George Pattee, Parksite Inc., Batavia, Ill.; and Dirk Van Dongen, NAW’s president.
