Jeffrey Appel Promoted to Director of Sales for Alumicor, EFCO and Tubelite

Jeffrey Appel has been promoted to director of sales for Apogee Enterprises and its Architectural Framing Systems division, supporting the Alumicor, EFCO and Tubelite brands, and the legacy Wausau Window products. He most recently served as Northeast regional sales manager and brings 36 years of experience in architectural sales serving the commercial building industry.

Appel's experience and responsibilities

Reporting directly to vice president of sales Jon Close, Appel is responsible for managing the regional sales managers and for their supervision of the local client development managers and independent sales representative agencies. Together, the sales team assists commercial architects, glazing contractors and building project teams in the U.S. and Canada with their product selection and specification of high-quality, aluminum-framed storefront, curtainwall, entrances, windows and daylight control systems.

For nearly 20 years, Appel has worked with EFCO products. He started as an estimator and project manager focusing on curtainwall before he joined the sales team’s South region. He then moved to the Northeast region, where he also represented Wausau Windows. In addition, he has supported collaborative new product development across the EFCO and Tubelite brands.

He also taught strategic management for 10 years as an adjunct faculty member at James Madison University College of Business in Virginia.