March 01, 2010
PRESS RELEASE
Greg Paupst was appointed President, GVA Lighting effective March 1, 2010. The CEO and Owner of
the Company, Vladimir Grigorik, realized that it was timely to set in motion the building of a management
structure that would move the Company ahead in accordance with its growth strategy.
Greg is a results-oriented executive with an extensive career in operations and business development. His
experience includes start-up enterprises, quality/business systems implementation, strategic international
partnership development and business turn- arounds. He has an executive level background in labour
relations, human resources, engineering, sales and marketing, manufacturing, and cross-cultural
negotiation.
Greg has successfully negotiated numerous international technological exchange agreements, joint
ventures and licensing agreements with Korean, Japanese, U.S., European, Mexican and Canadian firms.
He led the construction of a greenfield manufacturing facility thereby establishing a significant market
base in Mexico. He also led the building of an advanced technology facility in Detroit for automotive
acoustics (sound abatement).
As chief executive of one company, Greg consolidated of a number of manufacturing locations in a new
greenfield manufacturing employing Lean Manufacturing techniques. The manufacturing facilities
adopted a number of best-in-class Japanese manufacturing practices.
He led his manufacturing/engineering teams on numerous trips to Japan and Korea to meet with the
parent companies of the North American New Domestics automotive manufactures. The team succeeded
in clearly understanding and implementing the requirements and expectations of their North American
New Domestic customers. This strategy brought major gains in market share with companies such as
Toyota, North America.
He has a B.A. in Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University. Greg his wife Linda live in Waterloo, just west
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada