Who we are
Mr. Walsh currently resides in Atlanta, USA. Prior to establishing Eastlink in 2006, David served as President for Rubbermaid® Foodservice Products at Newell Rubbermaid Inc (NYSE:NWL) where he held North American responsibility for the Rubbermaid® consumer and Rubbermaid® commercial food & beverage businesses. From 2002 to 2004, David served as President & global SBU leader for the IRWIN® Industrial Tool Company. He joined Newell in 2001 as Executive Vice President - Chief Procuremant Officer where he led the corporation’s $2B+ worldwide procurement efforts with offices in North America, Europe, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand and India. Prior to Newell, David worked for The Stanley® works (NYSE:SWK) as Vice President & General manager of new businesses and at Black & Decker Inc. (NYSE:BDK) where he enjoyed a ten-year career spanning several key leadership roles. While at Black & Decker, David held multiple key leadership roles in the Australia and North American entities, and from 1995-'97 lead the Far East sourcing operations for the worldwide household appliance business and was located in Hong Kong. From 1997 to 2000 David led the global Power-tool Accessory procurement organization and was located at the company's worldwide headquarters in Towson MD, USA. Prior to Black & Decker, Mr. Walsh was a key member of the start-up team at Officeworks® Superstores Australia, which has since grown to be the industry-leading office product retailer with current revenues in excess of $2.0B. David is a graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and obtained his MBA at Loyola College in Maryland, USA.
Mr. Lee currently serves as Executive Vice President - Operations for Eastlink Global. Directly prior to joining Eastlink, Wilfred served as Managing Director for Salton Inc. Asia, where he managed operations for their Salton®, Westinghouse® and Black & Decker® branded appliance businesses. From 2005 to 2007, Wilfred served as Executive Vice President & General Manager for Suncraft Tools, a leading industrial cutting tools manufacturer with several plants throughout greater China and sales & marketing operations located in UK, Germany and the USA. Prior to Suncraft International, Wilfred worked for Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE:NWL) where he held leadership responsibility for the Far East sourcing & new product development efforts of the Rubbermaid® Company, with worldwide revenues in excess of US$1B. From 1998 to 2001, he managed the Asia sourcing operations for Metabo® GmbH, a leading European power tool manufacturer with plants in Europe and Northern China. From 1995 to 1998 Wilfred worked at Black & Decker Inc. (NYSE:BDK) in the Hong Kong headquarter offices of their global purchasing operations. While at Black & Decker, Wilfred managed Far East sourcing for the worldwide power-tool accessory business supporting the B&D® and DEWALT® business units, as well as the Home product divisions of Kwikset® and Price Pfister®. Prior to Black & Decker, Wilfred held several management roles within US and Hong Kong based companies, and began his sourcing career in the retail industry working for the leading electronics specialty retailers.