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LAKE FOREST, IL<\/strong> – Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) announced the appointment of Jaime A. Irick, 42, as President of the Fitness Division, reporting to Brunswick Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark D. Schwabero. Irick will succeed Christopher E. Clawson, President of Life Fitness, who is leaving the company. The appointment is effective immediately.<\/p>\n Most recently chief commercial officer for Current, Powered by GE, Irick joins Brunswick following 14 years at GE, where he worked across several business units, and served in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility, including corporate strategy and sales. He had a strong track record of delivering exceptional financial performance at GE as well as transforming traditional business models to compete in new and evolving markets. A veteran, Irick graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and is a qualified Airborne Ranger. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. <\/p>\n \u201cRepresenting roughly 20 percent of Brunswick\u2019s sales with leading products and brands in the global commercial fitness market, our Fitness segment has grown in importance both within the Company and the fitness industry,\u201d Schwabero explained. \u201cFrom this base, we are committed to profitably growing Fitness annual sales to $1.5 billion by 2020 and continuing to evolve both our growth strategy and fitness portfolio and brands to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n \u201cOur progress to date has been in large measure the result of the talents and energies of our Fitness organization under the direction of Chris Clawson,\u201d Schwabero said. \u201cFor Chris\u2019 many contributions to the organization during his tenure, we offer him our thanks, gratitude and best wishes.<\/p>\n \u201cUnder Jaime\u2019s leadership, the Fitness Division will fully leverage its strengths as a product leader, while building new capabilities to succeed as a larger, more dynamic portfolio of winning brands into traditional and new markets,\u201d Schwabero said. \u201cThe Fitness Division will effectively unify products, technology and talent to develop winning solutions for our customers. With his track record of developing new business models and customer solutions in a growing organization, we believe Jaime will accelerate Fitness\u2019 growth with his unique blend of strategic thinking, operational acumen and leadership capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LAKE FOREST, IL<\/strong> – Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) announced the appointment of Jaime A. Irick, 42, as President of the Fitness Division, reporting to Brunswick Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark D. Schwabero. Irick will succeed Christopher E. Clawson, President of Life Fitness, who is leaving the company. The appointment is effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}