Sea Hawk Paints Names Detmer as COO

 

Based at the company’s headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., Detmer will report to Erik Norrie, co-founder and chief executive officer at Sea Hawk Paints. His responsibilities will include overseeing day-to-day operations as well as executing key strategic growth initiatives.

 

Prior to joining New Nautical Coatings, Inc. and the Sea Hawk brand, Detmer spent two years as president of the Niles division of Nortek, Inc.’s AVC Group. Prior to that, from 1991-2010 he was vice president of sales and marketing at Niles. Detmer attended classes at Antioch College in Liberal Arts and has certificates in executive education from: University of Wisconsin – Madison, Executive Education, Tactical Marketing; Kellogg School of Management, Executive Program, Accelerating Sales Force Performance; Program On Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Kellogg School of Management, Executive Program, Driving Top Line Organic Growth.