Movers & shakers

Local News
- 30 Nov 2017 ( #849 )
1 min read
Yates
Yates
St. Louis, MO, United States
MH Equipment
has appointed Isaac Yates as a regional sales manager, responsible for sales team leadership and driving revenue at MH Equipment locations in St. Louis and Scott City.
He joins the MH team from Fairchild Equipment where he served as president of the West Division.
Yates comes to MH Equipment with over 40 years of experience in various sales leadership roles. He has held executive positions at a number of companies such as Iveco Trucks of North America, Yale Materials Handling, Nordictrack, Jostens, New Standard Corp and Rihm Kenworth.

Toepfer
Toepfer
Frankfurt, Germany
Dr. Thomas Toepfer, CFO of KION Group, will be leaving the company on March 31, 2018. He will be joining Covestro AG in Leverkusen, one of the world's leading polymer material manufacturers, in the same role. The KION supervisory board has agreed to Dr. Toepfer's request for early termination of his contract which would have run until August 31, 2020. The board will decide on his successor very soon.
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