Seaman Corporation, a family-owned business headquartered in Wooster, OH, recently announced that its Board of Directors has selected Jeff Swartz as its new Chief Executive Officer.  Swartz will replace John Crum who is retiring after 18 years at Seaman, including the last 5 as CEO.

Swartz is a veteran of the building products industry, having spent 23 years with Armstrong World Industries and 6 years at Fortune Brands Global Plumbing Group in a variety of Sales, Operations, and General management roles in the US, UK, China, and Germany.  He was most recently President of Moen’s Americas business, where he had P&L responsibility for the US, Canada, and Latin America.  Swartz has a degree in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University, and an MBA from Columbia University.