November 16, 2017
STANDARD welcomes Frank Garcia who has joined Sales Team in Ontario as a Lighting Specialist.
Frank boasts more than 30 years of sales experience in the Electrical industry, notably in an Engineering designer firm. Frank will certainly be a great asset to STANDARD. He will be covering South Western Ontario.
Contact him via frank.garcia@standardpro.com.
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This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
