Sea-Land Chemical appoints senior VP for marketing & sales
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Sea-Land Chemical appoints senior VP for marketing & sales

Sea-Land Chemical Company, a global chemical distributor of specialty additives for the lubricants industry and household, industrial and institutional cleaning markets, announced the addition of Pete Pendergast as senior vice president of Marketing and Sales.

Pendergast brings 31 years of sales and leadership experience in the chemical industry to Sea-Land. He was most recently the senior sales director for North American Oil and Gas, Lubricants, Water Treatment and Mining with Dow. Pendergast has expertise in growing and leading high-performance sales teams. He holds a Master of Business Administration from DePaul University and an undergraduate in Marketing from Michigan State University. Bringing the North American sales, marketing and customer services teams together under Pendergast enables Sea-Land to improve commercial excellence for its customers.  

โ€œPete is an outstanding addition to our Sea-Land team, as he brings a wealth of industry connections, market knowledge and sales leadership expertise to our organization.โ€ said Jennifer Altstadt, president of Sea-Land Chemical. โ€œAs Sea-Land continues to focus on growth, Pete will be an integral part of the plan.โ€ 

In addition, Doug Honig was promoted to director of Customer Experience. Honig will bring the customer service team under the same organization as marketing. He will bring a technology-driven focus to customer service enabling more value-added service for customers.  Honig will report to Pendergast.