Mountain Lakes-based Flash Global Logistics, a global aftermarket 3PL service provider for mission critical service parts, announced Thursday it has named Sam Mikles as its new chief executive officer.

According to the announcement, Mikles joined the company in 2012 as senior vice president of global operations and was quickly promoted to CEO, leading Flash’s worldwide operations.  In this role, he successfully implemented several global improvements, created efficiencies, and launched FlashView, the industries first global track and trace technology.

Prior to joining Flash, he had 20 years of leadership experience on the service side working at a variety of equipment manufacturers such as EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Blue Coat Systems and Applied Materials, the announcement said.

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