Shanghai Richina general manager

Shanghai Richina Leather Co Ltd have announced the appointment of Neil Perrin to be the general manager for bovine production, reporting to Roger Wang, office of CEO, effective March 19, 2007. Neil brings with him a wealth of experience in the leather industry; he spent 16 years with Pittards in the UK, and ten years with Prime Asia and Prime Tanning. Neil will be in charged of SRL's footwear leather production, engineering, technical and R&D. Hans Herbst, technical manager, Hellen Xia, assistant general manager of shoe leather production and Byron Zhu, engineering manager, will be reporting to him directly. They have also announced the appointment of Ms Erica Wang as vice president - Asia sales, reporting to Roger Wang, and she assumed her duties on March 19 also. Erica has 17 years of experience in the leather and shoe industry. She was in shoe sales with Pou Yuen and Golden Chang and was also in leather sales and manufacturing with Prime Asia and Teh Chang. She will be in charged of sales activities in Asia. Her direct reports include Lim Khian Hwas, sales manager for China. Carl Flach completed his services at SRL in April. Carl has done outstanding services for SRL in both the automotive leather and shoe leather businesses. He has moved to Tantec as COO.