{"id":11403,"date":"2022-05-02T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2022-05-02T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T12:22:49","slug":"gnas-gary-clark-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/gnas-gary-clark-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"GNA\u2019s Gary Clark Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11404\" src=\"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Gary-Clark-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Clark\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/>Gary Clark, the technical service manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgilaundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girbau North America<\/a>, has retired after 27 years with the company. Clark started at GNA during its formation in 1995 and was among the first employees hired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all been fortunate to work alongside Gary, to get to know him and his family on a personal level, and to call him a friend,\u201d said GNA President Mike Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Clark designed and led countless service training workshops for distributors and end-users, fielded a huge number of service phone calls, provided on-site technical expertise and was the go-to person for \u201canything product-related.\u201d He worked closely with the sales team and Girbau Global Laundry Solutions on product development and continuing improvement, and interfaced daily with GNA\u2019s professional distributor network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe leaves big shoes to fill,\u201d Floyd added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor more than 27 years, the chair of technical knowledge at Girbau North America has been anchored by Gary Clark,\u201d explained Director of Services and Product Management Dave McAllister. \u201cMany a service technician has depended on Gary\u2019s wealth of knowledge, experience and direction to diagnose and repair GNA laundry equipment. Gary held a high standard for anyone who called himself a technician and rightly so, as he himself was exceedingly talented in both mechanical and electrical repairs. Girbau employees and customers congratulate Gary Clark for his years of service and dedication, which have long served the commercial laundry industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank all the current and past staff working at GNA for the support given to me over my tenure of 27 years,\u201d Clark said. \u201cI especially want to thank Mike Floyd for the confidence he had in me when he hired me. I have truly been blessed and want to thank all the great people who have helped me achieve my lifetime goals. I always tell people that I deal with people who strive to be the best that they can be, and I have strived to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Clark, the technical service manager for Girbau North America, has retired after 27 years with the company. Clark started at GNA during its formation in 1995 and was among the first employees hired. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been fortunate to work alongside Gary, to get to know him and his family on a personal level, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}