LSI Industries Inc. announced that Wilfred (Bill) T. O’Gara has been appointed Chairman of the Board by the Board of Directors, succeeding Gary P. Kreider, who has served as Chairman of the Board since November, 2014. Mr. Kreider will remain a board member until a successor director is appointed, at which time Mr. Kreider intends to retire from the board. The company also announced that Ronald D. Brown, current CEO, has been nominated by the Board to stand for election as a Director at the November 6, 2018 annual shareholders meeting. Mr. O’Gara is a member of the company’s Board and currently serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is the Managing Director of Buffalo Fork Holdings, LLC. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Isoclima SpA from July, 2017 to August, 2018. In conjunction with this new organization structure, the company eliminating the positions of President of LSI Lighting, President of Atlas Lighting and President of LSI Graphics, as well as the separate organizations aligned around the products each business produced and sold. The Company is now organizing as one LSI organization, focused on serving key customer markets with its full package of capabilities. The following structural leadership changes are being implemented in order to align the entire organization and better leverage LSI’s full scope of capabilities (lighting, graphics, digital signage, control and IoT technologies). A new Chief Commercial Officer role has been created which will be responsible for leading it’s sales organizations and market channels for all LSI products, technology and services. Jeff A. Croskey, who has served as President of it’s Graphics Segment since joining LSI in 2015, will assume this role. Prior to joining LSI, Jeff served in executive positions for Creative Sign Designs, Image International Corp., McNichols Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Another newly created key leadership position is the Chief Marketing Officer, whose responsibility will be to develop and implement marketing strategies across its served markets based upon customer needs; manage all of it’s marketing efforts; and lead LSI’s new product development. A search is currently underway for the Chief Marketing Officer. A critical function under the Chief Marketing Officer is product development. John A. Bagwell will become Senior Vice President of Product Development & Management for all of LSI’s lighting, graphics and technology products. John joined LSI in 2015 as President of the Technology Segment before becoming President of Atlas Lighting Products. Prior to joining LSI, John served in sales, marketing and executive level roles in various lighting controls and lighting manufacturing companies, including Acuity Brands, Synergy Lighting Controls and Automated Logic Corporation. Sales teams will now be organized around key markets where LSI’s total package of technologies, products and services are valued. Leaders for each of these teams will have responsibility for sales and market channel development, strengthening LSI’s position in these markets. Sylvia M. Astrop will become Senior Vice President of Global Sourcing, leading all of LSI’s procurement, sourcing and logistics functions. Sylvia joined LSI in 2007. Prior to joining LSI, Sylvia held various management and executive positions with Wornick Foods, AT&T and NCR, where she earned her Six Sigma Black Belt.