3/14/2016 3:20:00 AM
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Optimas OE Solutions Names Chaibi as CEO
Optimas OE Solutions appointed Anesa Chaibi as CEO and board member, effective immediately.
“In her prior role as the President and CEO of Facilities Maintenance at HD Supply, Anesa and her team transformed the business and grew revenue and EBITDA from approximately $840 million and $90 million, respectively, to $2.5 billion and nearly $500 million, respectively, over the span of a decade,” stated John Becker, partner at American Industrial Partners (Optimas’ majority shareholder).
“Anesa is an extremely talented CEO and her experience and capabilities are particularly well suited for Optimas.”
Chaibi succeeds Ian Clarke, who had been with Optimas for seven years.
She has 27 years of experience at General Electric and HD Supply.
“Optimas’ scale, diversity, strong customer relationships, talented employee base, and differentiated technical capabilities are unique in the distribution space and I look forward to providing exceptional service to our customers and creating long-term value at Optimas,” stated Chaibi.
Most recently Chaibi served as president and CEO, Facilities Maintenance for HD Supply Holdings, Inc. The Facilities Maintenance business serves markets with over 60,000 SKUs, over 5,000 employees, 44 distribution centers, and a fleet of more than 700 delivery trucks.
Chaibi holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia University and an M.B.A. in General Management from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
As the former OEM-Supply segment of Anixter, Optimas supplies highly engineered fastener hardware and components. Optimas has 2,000 employees operating across 70 locations around the world. In the 2015 fiscal year, Optimas supplied over 8 billion components from more than 100,000 SKUs sourced from over 3,800 vendors to our global customer base.
New York private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP) acquired Anixter’s OEM Supply Fasteners division at auction in January 2015 for $380 million cash.
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