Schwing America Inc. (SAI) has announced its new leadership team of Bill Murray and Tom O’Malley following the recent resignation of former CEO, Brian Hazelton. Bill Murray, CFO for the past four years at SAI, has been named as CEO effective immediately. For two years prior to that, Murray held the position of chief restructuring officer and independent board member. Over his 30-year business career, Murray has held senior level finance, operating and consulting positions in several companies, including divisions of Daimler Chrysler and General Motors.
Dave Adams, president and chief executive officer of Putzmeister America, Inc. since January 2000, has announced Peter Mendel as his successor. Adams’ career with Putzmeister spans 20 years, starting with the company as its vice president of engineering, and his past 16 years as president and CEO.
Putzmeister America, Inc. announces Peter Mendel as Putzmeister’s president and chief executive officer. In his new role, Mendel will assume full responsibility for overseeing Putzmeister America and its subsidiaries located in California, Houston and Mexico.
Rapid Applications Group, LLC, providers of PumpMagic, a leading ERP system with mobile workforce and GPS solutions for concrete pumping companies, will strengthen its offering with the acquisition of DisptachThis.com and Pumpware.
The acquisition greatly benefits the concrete pumping industry by bringing the best features and functionality from each system into the Rapid Applications platform. This will give our customers an even stronger and robust solution to manage and streamline their business.
Putzmeister America, Inc., has added Don Fees as parts sales manager—concrete transit mixers. In the role, he will be responsible for parts sales and product management of concrete transit mixers out of Putzmeister’s Houston facility.
With 24 years of experience in service parts sales, product management and ready mix operations, Fees brings considerable industry knowledge to his new role. Throughout his career, he has held various positions within the industry, most recently as parts division manager for a large concrete mixer manufacturing company.
Adam Wallace has returned to Schwing as west/central regional sales manager. Wallace originally joined Schwing in 2006 after graduating college and worked in ready mix equipment sales for the company. “It is with great pleasure that I return to a first class company that is also an industry leader,” according to Wallace.
Putzmeister America, Inc. has named longtime employee Jorge Reza its West Coast parts sales manager, responsible for working with customers in that region to fulfill their parts needs, as well as maintaining inventory at the company’s West Coast facility.
Reza started his career at Putzmeister in the paint department in 1999, transferring to the customer support group five years later. He most recently worked as Putzmeister’s new business manager for South and Central America. Prior to that he was the Latin America after sales parts and service manager.
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 3, 2016) – Mack Trucks today announced a new Mack® ASIST mobile app that allows customers to manage service and unplanned events from wherever they may be located. Mack ASIST is a cloud-based service relationship management tool that keeps fleet customers, dealers and service providers, Mack field staff and Mack Uptime Center agents connected during service and repair events.
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 3, 2016) – Mack Trucks announced today it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Geotab, a leading global provider of end-to-end telematics technology, enabling connectivity for older Mack vehicles not currently equipped with Mack® GuardDog® Connect, Mack’s integrated telematics solution. The addition of Geotab will help all Mack customers to benefit from telematics technology.
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 3, 2016) – Emphasizing fuel efficiency, power and its pioneering tradition of integration, Mack Trucks today highlighted its 2017 Mack® powertrain, including its Mack MP® series engines, Mack mDRIVE™ HD 13- and 14-speed automated manual transmissions, ClearTech™ One single package Exhaust Aftertreatment System (EATS) and Mack Predictive Cruise.
Mack made the announcement at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.
