New president and CEO for Alfa Laval Inc.

Jo Vanhoren has been named president and chief executive officer of Alfa Laval Inc. He also has been appointed president of Alfa Laval’s North American geographical sales “cluster,” which includes the company's sales and service organizations in the United States and Canada.

Vanhoren joined Alfa Laval in 1991. From 1996 through 2006, he held numerous progressive positions within the Alfa Laval Benelux organization. Since then, he has served as the general manager for Alfa Laval’s air business center; managing director of Alfa Laval Iberica (Spain and Portugal); and president of the Southern Europe cluster, which includes Iberica, France, Northwest Africa and Adriatic (Italy, Greece, Israel, Malta and Monaco).