Tnemec Co. Inc. has named Chase Bean director of National Accounts, with responsibility for development of new national accounts and management of service agreements for strategic-alliance partners in the industrial and architectural coatings markets. Bean, a great-grandson of company founder Albert C. Bean Sr., was formerly principal agent of Coating Resources Inc., a Tnemec representative firm in Minneapolis. He also was a technical sales representative for Corrosion Specialties Inc., also a Tnemec representative agency in Minneapolis, and a technical service representative for Tnemec.