Dorman Products announced that G. Michael Stakias has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Stakias will serve as a director of the company until the expiration of his term on the date of the company’s annual meeting of shareholders in 2016 and until his successor is selected and qualified, except in the event of his earlier death, resignation or removal.

Stakias currently serves as president and CEO of Liberty Partners, a New York-based private equity investment firm. From 1980 to 1998, Stakias was a partner at Blank Rome LLP, Philadelphia. His practice focused on the areas of corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and public and emerging growth companies. Prior to joining Blank Rome in 1980, Stakias served as senior attorney, Division of Corporation Finance, at the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

Stakias currently serves on the board of directors of STV Group Inc., a privately held architectural and engineering company. Stakias also serves on the board of directors of Concorde Career Colleges Inc., Henley-Putnam University and on the Board of Trustees of the College of William & Mary – Raymond A. Mason School of Business in Williamsburg, Virginia. Stakias holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law, a Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the College of William and Mary.