People: Oct. 2000

Ingersoll-Rand Co. appointed Peter Hong to vice president and treasurer.

Smallwood Design Group/Smallwood Landscape appointed Jud Griggs to vice president of operations.

Hal White joined Ferris Industries as vice president of marketing following the company’s purchase by Simplicity Manufacturing.

Neil Feola was appointed as chief operating officer, a new position, at OmniQuip Textron. The company also promoted Larry Skaff to group controller.

Scott Rushe and Jennifer Zelley were appointed territory managers for Barenbrug.

Dalen Products named Carleton Chidester to director of key accounts.

Randy Oberlander joined the Growth Products staff as a technical sales representative.

Simplot Turf and Horticulture named Chris Claypool as senior vice president of marketing in the Jacklin Seed business unit.

Irritrol Systems hired Keith Shepersky as category manager for the stand-alone controller product line.