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PEOPLE & EVENTS
MARCH 2014
ACT
2014
ConExpo-Con/Agg
March 4-8, 2014
Las Vegas, NV
SC&RA 2014
Specialized
Transportation
Symposium
March 19-21, 2014
Houston, TX
SC&RA 2014 Annual
Conference
April 22-26, 2014
Boca Raton, FL
AWRF General Meeting
April 27-30, 2014
Baltimore, MD
AWEA WindPower
2014
May 5-8, 2014
Las Vegas, NV
International Cranes
& Transport Turkey
Conference
May 8, 2014
Istanbul, Turkey
Tadano grows sales team
Tadano
America has
made senior
appointments
as it grows
its sales team
across North
America.
Kirk Erlinger
joins the
team as southeast regional
sales manager. Prior to
joining Tadano, Erlinger held
positions at Sany America and
American State Equipment
Company. He started his
career in the crane industry in
1988 with Dawes Rigging &
Crane Rental.
Mark Krajci
has been
appointed northeast regional
sales manager. Krajci brings to
the role more
than 30 years
of experience
in the crane
and lifting
industry
and is an
all-terrain crane technical
specialist. Previously, Krajci
owned his own AT crane
repair business. He also has
worked for Sany America and
Krupp Cranes N.A.
David
Green
has
been named
regional sales
manager for
the states of
Texas and
Oklahoma.
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EVENTS DIARY
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Kobelco
Cranes North
America, Inc.
has promoted
Blake
Nommensen
to Eastern
regional sales
representative. In his new
role, Nommensen will be
responsible for KCNA’s retail
and wholesale business in the
eastern half of the U.S.
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Manitex
has hired
Bob
Bray
as its
new product
support
manager. Bray
is returning
to Manitex,
where he had worked from
1993-1999 in the same role.
Bray’s experience over the
past 14 years includes all
facets of national and global
product support – service,
parts, training and warranty.
He previously worked for
Sandvik Tamrock as field
service manager; Manitowoc
Cranes as regional service
manager; H&E Equipment
Services as product support
manager; and most recently
as project manager III
with BAE Systems, Inc.,
supporting equipment and
training for U.S. troops in the
field in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Manitex
has also
appointed
David Soriano
to oversee the
documentation
and technical
writing
department. Soriano
has more than 25 years’
experience with Manitex. In
his new role, he will focus on
streamlining and updating
documents associated with
Manitex boom truck and
other products. He will
report to Bob Bray, the
company’s new product
support manager.
HIGHLIGHTS
Kirk Erlinger
David Green
Manitowoc announces
restructure of team
A new organizational structure
of senior management has
been announced at Manitowoc
Cranes. The team is three
senior executives, each with
global responsibility, reporting
to Eric Etchart, Manitowoc
Cranes’ president and general
manager.
Larry Weyers
is now
global executive vice president,
responsible for the crane
product lines, including
engineering, sales and
marketing, and Crane Care.
Josef Matosevic
is
executive vice president of
operations and procurement,
responsible for the operating
value stream, including all
facilities and procurement
activities.
Dean Nolden
is executive
vice president of finance
and information systems,
responsible for processes and
efficiencies.
The reorganization is a
transition from regional
management to global
product line management, the
company said. Supporting it
will be a new global sales and
marketing organization. It
will continue to be structured
regionally but managed
globally.
“As our customers become
more global we need to adapt
our structure to respond
faster to their evolving needs,
streamline communications,
and manage inventory
availability more efficiently,”
Etchart said.
The new sales and marketing
organization includes
Dave
Hull
, senior vice president
global sales and marketing. He
has been at Manitowoc since
1995.
Ingo Schiller
was named
senior vice president rough
terrain, boom truck and
industrial cranes. He has been
with Manitowoc since 2008.
Jean-Noel Daguin
is the
new senior vice president
of tower cranes. He joined
Manitowoc in 2001.
John Kennedy
is senior
vice president of crawler
cranes. He has been with
Manitowoc since 1988.
Jens Ennen
was named
senior vice president of all-
terrain and truck cranes.
Ennen joined Manitowoc in
1991.
Raman Joshi
, vice
president and general manager
for Manitowoc Asia-Pacific,
will report to Dave Hull for all
sales and marketing activities
and to Joe Matosevic for all
relating to operations. He
joined the company in 2005.
Leaving the company after
nine years is
Philippe Cohet
,
executive vice president for
the Europe, Middle East and
Africa region.
In other news, Manitowoc
announced that it will lay off
100 employees from the Shady
Grove plant. News reports
said the layoff was necessary
to balance factory production
with global demand.
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Mark Krajci
