Wilson R Jones

Wilson R Jones has been named to succeed Craig E Paylor as president of JLG Industries Inc, effective 1 July.

While Paylor is retiring, JLG says in a 25 May announcement, he will continue to serve JLG in a transitional capacity for an undetermined period.

JLG functions as the access equipment segment of publicly traded Oshkosh Corp.

Currently, Jones is president of Oshkosh's fire and emergency segment.

Both men are Oshkosh corporate executive vice presidents and report on behalf of the respective segments to Charlie Szews, Oshkosh president and chief operating officer.

"We wish Craig the best in retirement and look forward to Wilson successfully leading JLG and expanding the business globally," Szews says. "We expect to build upon the outstanding foundation set by Craig at JLG and are pleased to bring Wilson's skills to sustain and grow JLG's global leadership position in the access equipment market."

Craig E Paylor

Paylor joined JLG in 1978 as a district sales manager and, early in his career, held a variety of positions focused on sales and business development. Within McConnellsburg-based JLG, he became an officer in 1996, senior vice president of sales and market development in 1999 and senior vice president of sales, marketing and customer support in 2002.

During his more than 30-year tenure at JLG, Paylor played a key role in supporting the company's growth from a USD40 million privately held company to a publicly traded global corporation with sales of USD2.29 billion prior to the 2006 acquisition by Oshkosh for USD3.1 billion.

Under Oshkosh, Paylor was appointed senior vice president of marketing for the unit in 2006 and president of JLG and the access equipment segment in May 2007.

Jones has been in the specialty vehicle manufacturing industry for more than 20 years. He joined Oshkosh in 2005 as vice president and general manager of the airport products business unit and later became vice president of sales and marketing for the fire and emergency segment.

Jones was promoted to president of the Pierce Manufacturing unit in 2007 and president of the fire and emergency segment in 2008. Pierce is the primary business in the fire and emergency segment.

Jones was the vice president of sales and marketing for Akron Brass Co of Wooster, Ohio from 2002-2005.

For the fiscal year ended 30 September, Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp reported total sales of USD5.30 billion of which the access equipment segment accounted for USD1.14 billion and the fire and emergency segment for USD1.17 billion.