Comfort Solutions Names Wachendorfer, Sliwa to Development Posts

March 28, 2013  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Executive Changes on March 29, 2013

Bedding vendor Comfort Solutions has named David Wachendorfer vice president of business development for the Midwest region; and Thomas Sliwa brand development manager.

Wachendorfer, who reports to Comfort Solutions President and COO Dave Roberts, most recently served as vice president of sales development and retail training at Tempur-Pedic, where he held a number of executive sales management posts since joining the company in 2005.
 
Prior to his years with Tempur-Pedic, Wachendorfer served in management, sales and training positions with several mattress retailers including the former Dallas-based Mattress Giant from 1992-99 and from 2001-02, and with Mattress King, based in Atlanta, from 2003 to 2005.

As brand development manager, a new position, Sliwa is primarily responsible for coordinating product design and brand imaging, e-development, and for helping develop creative marketing programs. He reports to Ken Swinarski, company vice president of creative development.

Before joining Comfort Solutions, Willowbrook, Ill., Sliwa had served since 2001 in national accounts and business management posts at Chicago-based Amme Promotions and Tomken Management, among other Chicago companies.

From 1999 to 2001 Sliwa was national accounts marketing coordinator for the former Spring Air Company headquartered in Des Plaines, Ill. During those years he worked with current Comfort Solutions chief Roberts.