Company loyalty
Westphal helped start a company in the late 1990s called Ti-Lite that manufactured golf clubs, bicycle frames and wheelchairs. Eventually, Permobil, a Swedish company, bought Ti-Lite. Over a 26-year career, he worked his way up and became the second-longest-tenured employee in Pasco, where the company employed some 230 people in 2019, according to the Tri-City Herald.
As the wheelchair manufacturing industry goes, Westphal is far from the only person to transition between competitors. The current CEO of Westphal’s new company, Larry Jackson, was previously the CEO of Permobil. And Westphal’s new boss at Sunrise also used to work for Permobil, as the company noted in its complaint.
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