SIGI Establishes Scholarship in Honor of Brian McNamara
It’s with nice pleasure that Southworth Worldwide Group Inc. (SIGI) declares the institution of the Brian E. McNamara Honor Scholarship Sponsored by Southworth Worldwide Group Inc., aka The Brian McNamara Fund.
The endowed scholarship, which is funded by SIGI and managed by the Materials Dealing with Training Basis Inc. (MHEFI), is created to acknowledge and honor the numerous contributions made by Brian McNamara to MHI and to the fabric dealing with trade.
Brian joined Southworth in 1981 as a Regional Gross sales Supervisor within the northeast, and shortly moved into the function of Vice President of Gross sales. Within the early Nineties Brian grew to become Southworth’s president, a job he held for 28 years. Along with his management and imaginative and prescient, Brian positioned the corporate to develop and prosper. His tenure noticed the consolidation of Southworth’s North American manufacturing operations in Arkansas, the event and launch of key new merchandise, acquisitions and enlargement in the US, Europe and Asia, and the evolution of Southworth into a real worldwide chief within the materials dealing with options market.
“Over a 40-year profession with Southworth Worldwide Group, Inc. (SIGI), Brian McNamara supplied key imaginative and prescient, management and willpower to allow our enterprise to proceed to develop and evolve,” says James Cabot, SIGI CEO. “The trendy SIGI is known as a testomony to this imaginative and prescient and management. On the similar time, he has been an lively and engaged participant in MHI actions. He has championed bringing new expertise into our trade by involvement with MHEFI, CICMHE and different teams. It’s due to this fact becoming that we acknowledge Brian’s enterprise management, volunteer spirit, and give attention to educating and mentoring the subsequent era by a scholarship fund bearing his identify and endowed in perpetuity.”
The Materials Dealing with Training Basis is an impartial charitable group whose packages present grants to college students to advertise the examine of fabric dealing with, logistics, and provide chain schooling.
As sponsor of The Brian McNamara Fund, SIGI will contribute $33,000 every year for 3 consecutive years till the fund reaches $100,000 in whole. Recipients of scholarships awarded by MHEFI from The Brian McNamara Fund attend faculties or universities in the US in focused packages of examine that embody emphasis on materials dealing with, logistics, and provide chain administration.
