D’Alessandro Joins Univar as CFO

Univar named D. Beatty D’Alessandro as executive vice president and chief financial officer. D’Alessandro’s appointment follows the announcement that Steven M. Nielsen will be resigning from Univar as executive vice president and chief financial officer on Jan. 15.

D’Alessandro joins Univar after spending 29 years at Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services. There, he served as senior vice president and CFO as well as on the Board of Directors. Earlier in his career at Graybar, he served as vice president and chief information officer, overseeing the successful deployment of an enterprise-wide SAP system.