Osram Sylvania Names Leaman President, CEO

Osram Sylvania (Danvers, MA) has named Rick Leaman president and CEO, effective October 1. Leaman will succeed Charlie Jerabek, who will assume a new role as the company’s vice chairman. The announcement was made by Martin Goetzeler, CEO of Munich-based OSRAM GmbH.

Leaman will serve as chief executive for Osram Sylvania’s consumer-lighting, professional-lighting and specialty-lighting business units in Canada, Mexico and the U. S. He will also serve as a member of its board of directors.

Leaman has been executive VP and general manager of Osram’s global Automotive Lighting division in Munich since 2006. His 25-year lighting career has included executive positions in Osram Sylvania’s automotive lighting, materials and components, and general lighting businesses. Leaman graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, with a B.S. degree in administrative and management science, mathematics and economics.

Jerabek began his career with Sylvania as a sales engineer in 1973 and occupied various sales, marketing, operations and general-management positions before being named president and CEO in 2001. He holds a B.S. degree in science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. degree from Boston University.