Optimas Solutions CEO Anesa Chaibi is leaving for personal reasons and Optimas named T.J. Rosengarth to succeed her.

Optimas credited Chaibi with leading “significant change throughout the company and created a strong culture of mutual respect, collaboration and innovation with employees, customers and our supply partners.”

Rosengarth has 30 years experience in global industrial businesses. From 2011 to 2018 he was CEO of Northwest Hardwoods – which had been owned by American Industrial Partners. Rosengarth assisted AIP with carving out NWH from Weyerhaeuser in 2011. Previously he had run Weyerhaeuser’s Composite Panels business with operations in Ireland, France and North America from 2001 to 2006 and, after helping to carve out the Composite Panels business from Weyerhaeuser, ran the standalone U.S. business for Flakeboard from 2006 to 2011. Rosengarth graduated from Portland State University with a bachelor’s in business in 1985.

Glenview, IL-headquartered Optimas Solutions is a global industrial distributor of fasteners and c-class components. Optimas has 1,600 employees in 16 countries. Optimas has 3,500 suppliers to distribute 130,000 SKUs of 10 billion components to 10,000 customers in automotive, heavy truck, high tech, lawn & garden, medical, off-highway, power generation, powertrain, transportation and tunneling industries. Optimas manufactures in Illinois and the UK.

The Optimas brand was launched in 2015, but the company traces its roots to 1890 in North America and Europe.

Optimas is a member of the British Association of Fastener Distributors, European Industrial Fasteners Institute and Confederation of British Metalforming. Web: Optimas.com