Dur-A-Flex, Inc. has named Alessandro Machado Jesus as international strategic marketing manager. Machado Jesus is the former global marketing manager at Henkel Corp., Rocky Hill, Conn. Prior to joining Dur-A-Flex, he spent 13 years working for the Loctite division of Germany-based Henkel Corporation where he held a number of marketing leadership roles first in his native city of São Paulo, Brazil and, subsequently, relocating to the Rocky Hill, Conn. headquarters to assume additional marketing responsibilities in the United States and abroad.