Bedgear builds sales and leadership teams with promotions and new hires

Tony Catanza, left, Jonathan Mullinax, Nicole Coschignano, Frank Lopez, Colin Wolf and Jodie Cartwright

Farmingdale, N.Y. — Bedgear has added three and promoted three as part of its commitment to create strong teams in both the U.S. and Asia-Pacific.

Bedgear has added two directors of marketing and sales: Tony Catanza for the U.S. Southeast territory and Jonathan Mullinax for the U.S. West territory. Both will report to Leslie Clay, vice president of marketing and sales for North America.

Catanza previously held vice president of sales roles at both Serta and Restonic. Mullinax was vice president of sales at Simmons, America’s Mattress and Hollywood Bed & Spring Manufacturing Co.

Bedgear has also promoted three to the position of player development specialist:

  • Nicole Felix-Coschignano, who joined the company in 2018 as a sleep coach and is a bilingual Spanish speaker, will be serving the U.S. Southeast and South American territories.
  • With the company since 2019, Frank Lopez is also bilingual Spanish speaker and will be serving the central Florida and spearheading industry-specific events.
  • Colin Wolf, who joined Bedgear in 2019, will be serving the U.S. Northeast and Tri-State territories.

All three report to Holly Adorno, director of player development.

In addition, Jodie Cartwright joins Bedgear as one of the first sleep coaches for Australia. She breports to Ross Stuart, president of Asia-Pacific.

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Vicky Jarrett has worked with various furniture industry publications — including Furniture Today, Retail Ideas, Our State magazine and Casual Living — for more than 20 years and rejoined Furniture Today as Managing Editor in 2016.