PS Connect to Present Interactive Webinar
Technology Publishing Co.’s PaintSquare Connect, the virtual event that brought together experts throughout the coatings industries at the end of 2020, has announced a new webinar covering 2021 outlooks for the protective and marine coatings industry.
Entitled “Industrial Coatings: 2021 Market Outlook,” the free webinar will premiere on March 3, 10 a.m. ET, and will be moderated by Jim McBrayer, CEO, McBrayer and Associates, and presented by Brion Palmer, CEO, TPC.
2021 Industry Outlook Webinar
Although the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has continued to keep coatings professionals from meeting up in person, the webinar will virtually bring together a panel of coatings executives from Sherwin-Williams, Carboline, Induron and Tnemec.
In addition, registered coatings contractors, buyers, asset owners, facility managers, engineers, architects and shipyard managers, among other coatings professionals, are also invited to participate in an interactive polling portion of the event.
As part of the GoToWebinar, the platform now provides a built-in polling tool, which allows poll questions to display for all attendees. Results will be instantly shared inside the webinar once attendees have submitted their answers and the poll has closed.
Shared results display total attendee responses and don't include any individual information. The GTW poll answers will be incorporated automatically into the platform’s stats and reports.
The interactive tool is slated to further connect registered attendees with the event’s panelists, moderators and speakers and add to the event’s dialogue. Examples of potential poll topics include:
Additionally, the panel of coatings executives plan to discuss a wide range of topics during the presentation, including:
Those interested in attending may register for free, here.
About the Presenters, Panelists
Jim McBrayer, CEO, McBrayer and Associates, started his career in outside sales for PPG. His claim to fame as a salesperson is selling the largest account in the company’s history. After rising to sales director, responsible for 150 sales representatives and a dozen regional sales managers, and being appointed to PPG’s sales leadership team, McBrayer left PPG after 20 years, in 2009, to pursue his passion of helping others optimize their sales effectiveness by launching his own sales training company, McBrayer & Associates. McBrayer developed the company to help organizations in the painting and coatings industry exceed their revenue goals in three different ways: sales training, one-on-one coaching (for sales reps and managers) and consulting. The foundation of all three of these is customizing sales collateral content that resonates with their customer segments.
Doni Riddle is the Senior Vice President, Technology & Integration, Protective & Marine Coatings Division of The Sherwin-Williams Company. He has more than three decades of technical sales, marketing and management experience—including his tenure with Sherwin-Williams. Prior to working for Sherwin-Williams, Riddle spent several years with PPG and AWC Coatings. In 2013, Riddle was awarded the John D. Keane Award of Merit by SSPC: the Society for Protective Coatings. Riddle is a 1982 graduate of the University of Texas in Austin. He is a NACE-certified coatings inspector and has served as past-president on the board of directors for SSPC.
Paul Atzemis is the Director of Technical Service at Carboline Company and a co-host of the Carboline Tech Service Podcast. Throughout his career, Atzemis has worked as a sales representative for Sherwin-Williams and as a chemist for a variety of companies including Watson Coatings, Care-Tech Labs, Sensient Technologies Corp. and Sigma Coatings. An engineering professional skilled in coatings, paint, polymers, corrosion, inspection and sales management, Atzemis joined Carboline in 2011 as a technical service engineer and was promoted to his current role in 2015. Atzemis has a Bachelor of Science focused on chemistry from John Carroll University.
Davies Hood is the President and third-generation owner of Induron Coatings, LLC. A veteran of the coatings industry, Hood started his career as an analyst and region manager for Microbac and later worked as the vice president of sales for Dominion Environmental Group. In 2009, Hood joined Induron as President, where he currently leads the industrial coatings manufacturer and actively runs the sales team. Hood is a NACE Level 3 Certified Coatings Inspector and has a bachelor’s degree from Hampden-Sydney College in biology. Hood also attended the Brock School of Business at Samford University.
Cory Brown is the Executive Vice President of Tnemec Company, Inc. and with more than 20 years of coatings industry experience, understands the critical role of quality coating technology and well-rounded technical support. His experience as a member of the Tnemec team includes seven years as a senior technical service representative and five years as a production supervisor responsible for managing the daily operations of three departments at Tnemec. Brown is a NACE-certified coating inspector and a graduate of Park University in Parkville, Missouri, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Brown recently received his MBA from University of Missouri-Kansas City.
PaintSquare Connect
The three-day event took place Nov. 10-12 and was co-sponsored by Sherwin-Williams, Carboline, Finishing First (Powered by LMCI) and McBrayer & Associates.
In replacing traditional panel discussions and aiming to serve a broader audience than the company's in-person Contractor Connect events, PaintSquare Connect’s three-day program offered a track-specified curriculum, complete with a variety of sessions and presentations that have since been uploaded to the event website.
The curriculum, which was co-sponsored by 10X Engineered Materials and PPG, was segmented into concurrent tracks:
The recorded education sessions will remain online until May 31, 2021.
Additionally, new and current registrants still have access to the Product Pavilions as well, where they can continue to browse the latest offerings and innovations from leading companies and can even request a callback or schedule a meeting within the online booths.
The PaintSquare Rewards Program is also continuing to keep track of previously accumulated and current activity logs of new and old registrants until May 31, 2021. TPC has selected winners based on the largest volume of accumulated points, starting with a Grand Prize for the top earner, Second Prize for the next highest earner and so on. Ten prizes were awarded directly after the event’s conclusion, and 10 have been slated to be awarded over the next six months.
If you were not registered for the live PaintSquare Connect event and would like access to the archived sessions, you may complete your free registration by visiting the PaintSquare Connect registration page, here.
