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HAPPENINGS
the parent company Samsung. An Ohio native with three decades of experience in the appliance category, Warner began his career with Maytag,
working for the company for 15 years supporting the business in many sales
and sales management roles across the U.S. market. He joined Electrolux,
where he launched and led the Builder Division across the West Coast, as
well as managed national buying groups. Following his time at Electrolux,
Warner joined the Sub-Zero Group West team as vice president sales,
overseeing West and Southwest distributorships. Prior to joining Dacor, he
served as president of Sub-Zero Group West and Southwest distribution,
including overseeing sales, marketing, operations and customer service. He
holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the University of
South Florida in Tampa.

Board Members:
KRISTEN ELDER

ALLISON LOWRIE

Chief Marketing Officer, ANGI
Homeservices, Golden, Colo.

Allison Lowrie was named chief
marketing officer at ANGI Homeservices, parent of Angie's List
and Home Advisor, in 2017. Lowrie, who served as NKBA board
chair in 2020, specializes in brand
management, customer acquisition, communications and marketing intelligence. In 2015, she
was named chief marketing officer of HomeAdvisor (U.S.), which she joined
in 2010, and has held various senior marketing positions throughout her
tenure. Before joining HomeAdvisor, Lowrie acted as the director of advertising products at Cars.com from 2004 to 2010. She also serves on the Home
Improvement Research Institute's (HIRI) Board of Directors.

JAN NEIGES, CMKBD

Showroom & Builder Vice President,
Ferguson Enterprises
Newport News, Va.

Kristen Elder is the showroom &
builder vice president at Ferguson Enterprises, responsible for
showroom and builder strategy
and execution. She is an accomplished consumer product sales
and marketing leader with experience in launching and growing top
consumer and retail brands. She joined Ferguson in 2017 as senior director of
appliance business development and has worked very closely with the sourcing, category management and marketing business groups and the branch
network to increase sales and profitability of Ferguson's appliance business.
Before joining the company, Elder spent 20 years in the retail industry with
many notable brands, including Sony Electronics, Circuit City and Monark
Premium Appliance Co.

JAN HECK

President and CEO, Miele USA
Princeton, N.J.

With more than 20 years in the
kitchen and bath industry in
North America, Jan Heck was
named president and CEO of
Miele USA, a subsidiary of the
world's largest family-owned premium appliance company, in 2016.
He oversees overall operations of
the company's consumer and professional use appliance and floor care products, which includes management
of 10 Miele Experience centers across the U.S. He started his career at
Bizerba, a weighing and food-processing equipment manufacturer, serving
Germany, the U.K. and Canada. After that, he joined Miele in Ontario, where
he became president of the Miele Ltd. Canada subsidiary in 1999. He holds
a Bachelor of Commerce degree from IHK (Chamber of Industry) in Reutlingen, Germany, has been active in numerous professional organizations
and orchestrated a $100 million fundraising campaign as a board member
of St. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation in Toronto.

Principal, Jan Neiges CMKBD LLC,
Denver, Colo.

Jan Neiges, CMKBD, principal of
her namesake design firm in Denver, is an award-winning kitchen
designer and past president of
the Rocky Mountain Chapter
of NKBA. A longtime certified
kitchen designer, she achieved
her Certified Master Kitchen
& Bath Designer designation in
2020. She's a frequent guest lecturer at colleges, home shows and at KBIS.
Capitalizing on 40 years of sales experience and 20 years of design, Neiges
has helped colleagues hone their marketing and selling skills with a process
specific to kitchen and bath designers that has been proven to shorten the
lead-to-sale cycle, improve the closing ratio while also earning design fees
before they design.

New directors joining
the board include:
MIKAEL AKERBERG

CEO, Nobilia North America
Miami, Fla.

With more than 20 years of international executive experience in
supplying products and services
to the construction and remodeling market, Mikael Akerberg was
named CEO of nobilia North
America in December 2017. He
earned his MBA at IHM Business
School in Sweden and has worked
for several global companies. Before joining nobilia in 2009, Akerberg held
executive positions in companies such as Saint-Gobain S.A. and Jeld-Wen
Inc. Within nobilia, the main focus has been to build sales and logistic
structures on larger scales to fulfill the demands of both retail and wholesal-

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