Stego Hires Steve Lutes
June 4, 2013 9:52 AM
Executive Brings Three Decades of Experience to Company's Rapidly-Growing Business Operations
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - Stego Industries LLC, the leader in below-slab moisture vapor protection, announced Monday the hiring of Steve Lutes, one of the leading minds in the concrete accessories sector of the construction industry.
Lutes, most recently the General Manager for the western region of Meadow Burke of Tampa, Fla., will advance Stego's exclusive marketing position with ARIDUS®, the revolutionary new rapid-drying concrete mixture from U.S. Concrete, Inc. (NASDAQ: USCR). Additionally, he will bring his formidable experience to servicing and optimizing Stego's vital national network of professional contractor suppliers.
"We are thrilled to add an expert with the skill, experience and integrity of Steve Lutes to our growing team," Stego Chief Executive Officer Paul J. Blasdel said. "This major addition demonstrates Stego's rapid advancement in the construction materials marketplace and its commitment to delivering superior value to our stakeholders in the design, construction and product distribution communities."
For more than a decade, Lutes led the national sales operations of the powerful Concrete Accessories Division (CAD) of White Cap Construction Supply, integrating multiple acquisitions, negotiating several multimillion dollar strategic supplier agreements and putting innovation into operation through his unique ability to fuse technical, programming and marketing knowledge into powerful business tools.
"The addition of Steve Lutes will demonstrate Stego's long-term commitment to our critical partners in the professional contractor supplier community," Stego Chief Operating Officer Matthew Blasdel said. "Steve's decades of experience in this field should tell our network of distributors the value we place on our relationships with them."