Hatco Corp. promoted Lorne Deacon to executive vice president for the company and Casey Reilley to director of its Ovention Ovens line.

Deacon will continue to oversee Ovention and as well as marketing for the company. He will also take on oversight responsibility for all of the Hatco and Ovention manufacturing operations. Deacon joined Hatco in 2018 as director of global marketing and product development. He was promoted to vice president of global marketing in 2019. Deacon joined the foodservice equipment industry in 2013 from the banking and financial sector and was most recently with The Middleby Corp.

In his new role, Reilley will have responsibility for all aspects of the Ovention business. He joined Ovention in 2016 as an embedded systems engineer and has led the Ovention engineering team for nearly three years. Prior to joining Ovention Ovens, Reilley was a senior design engineer at Macromatic Industrial Controls.