Sāfilo USA has announced the appointment of Robin Scheer Ettinger to the position of vice president of marketing. In her new position, Robin will direct all marketing activities for Sāfilo USA's optical and retail sunglass divisions, as well as the company's retail division. She joins Sāfilo from The National Kitchen and Bath Association where, as director of marketing, she oversaw the association's marketing initiatives for the $265 billion kitchen and bath remodeling and design industry. 

Andy Huthoefer has joined Satisloh North America as vice president business development. In this newly created position, he is responsible for key accounts, strategy, and marketing development. In his 15 years of optical experience in North America and Germany, Huthoefer has served as includes director of strategic planning for Carl Zeiss Vision International, marketing vice president at Carl Zeiss Optical and lenses product manager for Carl Zeiss in Germany.

REM Eyewear has appointed industry-veteran Mauro Schena to direct its operations covering Europe, The Middle East, and Africa. Designed to reinforce REM's international distribution, Schena will oversee sales, marketing, and logistics for the region in which REM has been selling its brands for nearly two decades. Schena comes to REM with 22 years of sales experience in the optical industry in Europe, including work as an optician and buyer.

Thomas Shone

The CooperVision division of The Cooper Companies is making changes to its management, including the appointment of Thomas Shone as president, CooperVision U.S. Shone, who joined CooperVision in 1990, was previously senior vice president of strategic marketing. As president, he will be responsible for the organization's sales, marketing, customer service and professional relations functions.

Jeff McLean

Steve Reiman has been named VP of strategic accounts; Mark Bertolin will become VP of sales development and technology. Reiman previously was senior director of inside sales and Bertolin was previously senior director of digital marketing. Jeff McLean continues as president of the Americas; however, in addition to operations, McLean will oversee distribution and packaging throughout the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and Mexico.

David R. Williams

David R. Williams, William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics and director of the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science, has won the 2007 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science, awarded each year by the Jewish Guild for the Blind. 

He accepted the award and the $37,500 prize at a ceremony last month in New York City. Williams and colleagues have developed a camera that incorporates "adaptive optics" to see inside the human eye more clearly than ever before. The camera can take pictures of structures as small as single cells at the back of the living eye.