January 15, 2013 – Retaining his existing responsibilities as executive vice-president of sales for Harting Inc. of North America, Jon DeSouza has been named president and CEO of Harting Canada Inc.

“Our North America strategy is focused on proximity to our customers and distributor base where both the U.S. and Canada play very important, but distinguished roles,” said DeSouza. “The first step was to establish Harting Canada Inc. with headquarters in Montreal and Claude Gravel as our Canadian regional sales manager. Now we’re ready for the next step in building our sales team: the appointment of an area sales manager to focus on Ontario, which will be announced in a matter of weeks.”

The Harting portfolio of connectivity solutions focuses on multiple levels, “from the machine to the device, and into the communication infrastructure”.