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    Quietside Names President

    Sept. 11, 2013
    William E. Rau oversees all aspects of Quietside’s HVAC business.

    Quietside Corp., the Southern California-based seller of energy-efficient HVAC systems and related solutions, recently named William E. Rau president of its HVAC division.

    Rau, who oversees all aspects of Quietside’s HVAC business, has nearly 30 years of HVAC-industry experience. Most recently, he was president of Watsco Environmental Solutions, overseeing variable-refrigerant-flow (VRF) product categories for Carrier Enterprise and Watsco Inc. Before that, he was the first non-Japanese top executive for Mitsubishi Electric HVAC in the United States.

    Quietside is the master distributor of Samsung mini-split systems, the Samsung DVM Plus III VRF system, Samsung HR and HP DVM S inverter VRF systems, and Quietside and Coaire mini-splits for North America.

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    Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.