Ron Keating has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Ben Stas has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Excelitas Technologies Corp., parent company of Phoseon Technologies.
Keating and Stas succeed former CEO David Nislick and former CFO Jim Rao who have announced their retirements.
Ron Keating served the past nine years as President and CEO at Evoqua Water Technologies, which he took public in 2017. This past year, he successfully led the sale of Evoqua to Xylem.
Ben Stas served alongside Ron Keating at Evoqua as the Executive Vice President, CFO and treasurer. The two also worked closely together at Kennametal, where they served in leadership positions before moving to Evoqua.