George Stefan was hired by Ikona Gear as director of manufacturing, a newly created position. According to the company’s press releaes, Stefan has worked in the industry for more than 15 years in various positions. Most recently, he worked as senior program manager, project engineer and operations management with Pacific Rim Engineered Products. Among his new responsibilities will be leading the company’s foray into gear systems technology, spearheading the company’s ISO 9000 certification efforts, managing external client projects and leading internal design and development teams on specific projects and prototypes. $BE((Beorge brings to our organization a unique combination of management expertise and business savvy coupled with a wide breadth of product development and manufacturing experience. As Ikona moves to rapidly scale the business and expand into new sectors, the ability to add strategic professionals such as George will be drivers for our success$B!&(B says Laith Nosh, president and CEO of Ikona Gear.