SP Industries, Inc. (SP) CEO Brian Larkin has announced Robert (Rob) Darrington as the company’s new Vice President of Research & Development. Darrington was originally tapped to lead the department as well as serve on the SP Executive Leadership Team in an interim role in October of 2019.
Darrington has held a number of marketing and product roles associated and within the SP organization originally as part of Genevac, Ltd. prior to its 2006 acquisition by SP as well as working across the SP portfolio of brands. In January of 2017 he was named Vice President of Marketing for the company’s SP Scientific business and subsequently assumed responsibility for building the Portfolio Management team and its capabilities across the SP organization.