MRO product and service distributor MSC Industrial Supply Co. added Ryan Mills as the Melville, New York-based company’s Head of Investor Relations, effective June 19.

MSC is the No. 6 MRO distributor, No. 5 fastener distributor and No. 13 industrial distributor on MDM’s 2023 Top Distributors list.

In this role, Mills will manage and coordinate communication of the company’s financial results and serve as the primary point of contact to the analyst and investor communities. He succeeds John Chironna, who has retired after 11 years with MSC.

Mills brings 10 years of financial and industry experience through various investor relations roles at Kennametal and American Electric Power, as well as at KeyBanc Capital Markets where he supported coverage of the industrial distribution industry. Mills joins the MSC from an investor relations advisory firm, where he served as a lead advisor developing IR programs and providing strategic guidance across all areas of communication for capital markets.

He will be based out of the Davidson, North Carolina, office.

MSC will report the company’s fiscal third quarter financial results on June 29.