GREENVILLE, SC -- Kemet Corp. has named electronics veteran Per-Olof Loof chief executive, effective April 4.  The company also named a new chairman.

Loof is managing partner of a New York management consulting firm. He was previously chief executive of Sensormatic Electronics, now part of Tyco. Loof also has had posts at Andersen Consulting, Digital Equipment Corporation, AT&T and NCR.

Loof was also named to the Kemet board.

Kemet chairman David E. Maguire said Per-Olof Loof's "global expertise will allow Kemet to build on the strong market position [we have] with major manufacturers and distributors around the world."

Kemet also announced that Frank G. Brandenberg, one of the company's current independent directors, has been elected as the new chairman, effective March 31. The action fulfills one of the changes to the corporate governance guidelines recently approved which requires the chairman to be an independent director.

Maguire, a former CEO of Kemet and a 40-year veteran of the company, will leave the board at that time.