Cobalt Boats LLC, Neodesha, Kan., announced the addition of Kim Slocum to lead its engineering team and product development Initiatives Monday. He has joined the company as vice president of Product Development and Engineering. Slocum has 38 years of experience in all aspects of boat building and manufacturing and is the former president and general manager of Natutic Global Group’s Rinker Boats, Syracuse.

Slocum will work with Cobalt president of product development and engineering Sean Callan and CEO Paxson St. Clair. He will also work with the production team “to accelerate the product development process and broaden the bandwidth of the product offering and quality initiatives already in place at Cobalt,” the company said.

He and wife Suzie will be leaving the area and will miss all of their community friends, he reported. The couple resided at Dewart Lake, Syracuse, for many years.