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- 30 Oct 2014 ( #691 )
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Paul Berrow
Paul Berrow
Redditch, United Kingdom
Translift Bendi has appointed Paul Berrow to its board of directors. Berrow has over 20 years of experience in the forklift industry. Before joining Bendi in 2002 as area sales manager, he worked for Finning Ltd, DAC Plant and Jungheinrich. He was promoted to joint sales director at Bendi in 2012. He will now take the role of UK sales director.

Lyndle McCurley
Lyndle McCurley
Suwanee, GA, United States
Doosan Industrial Vehicle America Corp has named Lyndle McCurley as general manager of national accounts and dealer development. McCurley has been with the corporation for 10 years. His previous position was strategic account development manager. He has more than 15 years of materials handling equipment industry experience in sales and marketing, account management, operations and new business development.


Olof Persson
Olof Persson
Göteborg, Sweden
After the merger of the Volvo Group's current three sales and market regions in the truck operation into a single global sales organisation, and the creation of a smaller and more efficient management, the number of members of the group's executive team is being reduced from 16 to 10. From 1 January 2015, the executive team will comprise:
Olof Persson - President and CEO
Joachim Rosenberg - Group Trucks Sales
Michael Bratt - Group Trucks Operations
Torbjörn Holmström - Group Trucks Technology
Håkan Karlsson - Business Areas (Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta, Volvo Buses, Governmental Sales)
Karin Falk - Corporate Strategy
Sofia Frändberg - Corporate Legal & Compliance
Jan Gurander - Corporate Finance &Control
Kerstin Renard - Human Resources
Volvo will also relocate group management and the related staff functions from the current head office in Torslanda to the group office in the Lundby area, where most of the truck operation's central units are gathered.
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