Atkore promotes Lamps to president of business unit

HARVEY - Atkore International has promoted Mark Lamps to president, Mechanical Products and Solutions business unit, effective March 1.

Lamps will have leadership responsibility for metal framing, mechanical pipe, barbed tape and construction services businesses in North America, as well as metal framing, cable management and flexible conduit businesses across EMEA and APAC regions.

Lamps succeeds Mike J. Schulte, who is leaving to pursue a new leadership opportunity outside of Atkore.

He joined Atkore in October 2018 as vice president-business development and strategy with responsibility for developing growth strategies focused on key business opportunities and acquisitions. He will continue to support this role on an interim basis while Atkore searches for a permanent replacement.

Before joining Atkore, Lamps was vice president-technology for nVent LLC, an electrical products company that was a spinoff from Pentair LLC, where he was responsible for leading new product development and digitization activities. Prior to that, he spent 23 years at Pentair, LLC holding key executive roles in businesses with large global Profit & Loss responsibilities as well as leading a 900-person engineering organization. Additionally, Mr. Lamps was based internationally for four years, and drove rapid growth in key strategic regions from $3 million to more than $80 million during that same time period.

Lamps earned Master of Business Administration from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a Master of Science in Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Stanford University.