Nationwide Marketing Group has promoted three current executives to VP posts: Ed Knodle, to member development VP; Frank Sandtner, to member services operations VP; and James MacAlpine, to rental division and business development VP. The promotions are the latest since the ascension of Robert Weisner to CEO of Nationwide earlier this year … David Berman exited Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) for a VP position with member dealer Stereo East and will be responsible for its sales and operations … RadioShack has tapped Ace Hardware exec Dorvin Lively as chief financial officer, executive VP and chief administrative officer. He succeeds former chief financial officer Jim Gooch, who became the chain’s CEO in May following the retirement of Julian Day … Robert Schriesheim, ex-chief financial officer of Hewitt Associates, named executive VP/chief financial officer of Sears Holdings. He succeeds acting chief financial officer and controller William Phelan … Vincent Reapor joined Swann Security as sales and product coordinator, to act as the conduit between the North American sales team, global headquarters in Australia and manufacturing facilities in Hong Kong. He was previously in-vehicle electronics product manager at Winplus North America. Also joining Swann, Nick Movsisyan was named training and merchandising manager, with responsibilities for all aspects of Swann’s vendor training program and merchandising initiatives in North America. He was previously with Cbeyond Communications … Chris Casson has been promoted to marketing team leader at Proporta. Casson will oversee all marketing for the U.S. and internationally … Samsung Techwin America has appointed Dr. Edward Wassall as IP product and business development director … Auto Page has hired Kenichiro (Ken) Watanabe as VP and chief financial officer.