Executive Moves: Saddle Creek, CenterPoint, LOC Group and CSafe

Saddle Creek appointed chairman and CenterPoint Properties named VP on West Coast, while LOC Group appointed COO and CSafe Global announced sales director for France and Spain.    Saddle Creek Logistics Services has appointed Scott Thornton chairman. He succeeds Saddle Creek founder David Lyons who died in July 2015. Thornton, a 30-year veteran of the company, most recently served as vice president of corporate development.

   CenterPoint Properties has named Ryan Dunlap senior vice president for investments on the U.S. West Coast. He previously spent 10 years with three different Black Creek Group industrial real estate funds and most recently served as senior vice president of investments at Industrial Property Trust.

   Marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group has appointed Jerome Rutler to the newly created position of group chief operating officer. He has worked for more than 20 years in the oil and gas, petrochemicals and marine industries for a variety of companies.

   CSafe Global, a provider of cold-chain services to the life sciences industry, has named Sébastien Berrous director of sales for France and Spain. He previously held senior management roles at GE Healthcare and most recently at B. Braun.