Nov 5, 2009
NEW LEADERSHIP AT AWP
AWP President, Bill Fink, has announced changes in two key upper management positions at the company.
Jay A. Jimenez, of Hudson, Ohio, has joined AWP as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Mr. Jimenez, a New Jersey native, brings over ten years of public utility operating experience to his new assignment. Jay comes to us after serving First Energy in a variety of capacities, most notably as its Director of Operations for meter reading and collections. For 2010, Mr. Jimenez will focus on enhancing AWP’s safety culture and improving the firm’s operational efficiency.
Donald A. Weidig, a Canton, Ohio resident, has joined AWP as our Chief Financial Officer. A certified public accountant and life-long resident of the Northeast Ohio community, Mr. Weidig has more than 30 years of accounting & finance experience, including spending over ten years with Ernst & Young followed by a number of prominent for profit corporations. Mr. Weidig’s immediate goals are to increase the efficiency of AWP’s internal accounting operations, and to create accurate profit and loss reporting for each of AWP’s 14 regional offices.