The Marble Institute of America (MIA)+Building Stone Institute (BSI): the Natural Stone Institute has added two full-time staff members.
Mark Meriaux has been hired as accreditation and technical manager, where he will have a blended role on staff managing the accreditation program and addressing technical inquiries from members and design professionals (assisting Chuck Muehlbauer and Mike Loflin). He has 14 years of stone industry experience and was most recently a commercial sales manager with VT Industries.