Kallio

Helsinki, Finland
Ilari Kallio has been appointed chief digital officer at Konecranes. He starts in his new position on June 18, 2018 and reports to Juha Pankakoski, executive vice president, technologies.
Kallio joins Konecranes from Wärtsilä, where he was director, digitalisation, for one of the marine business units. Kallio has experience from leading large technology functions, developing new digital business models and building innovation ecosystems. He has also participated in driving the Finnish industry forward in many innovation hubs, like DIMECC Oy and Click Innovation Oy as a chairman and board member.

Knight

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Jungheinrich UK has welcomed Les Knight to the position of sales director, where he will be responsible for leading an expanding team and driving the company's UK sales strategy in support of its current trajectory of annual double-digit growth.
With industry experience totalling more than 25 years, Knight joins from Briggs Equipment UK, where he held the position of regional sales director since 2014. This followed three years at Linde Material Handling as a sales and marketing director, having worked his way up the operational chain in Briggs Equipment, Finning UK and Lex Harvey, where he started his career as an apprentice engineer.

Klauser

Bergheim, Austria
PALFINGER AG has appointed Andreas Klauser as CEO. Klauser is an accomplished top manager with international experience, who is currently the global brand president of Case IH and STEYR as well as a member of the group executive council of CNH Industrial.
Subject to the finalisation of the relevant contracts, Andreas Klauser will assume the office of CEO on June 1, 2018.
At CNH Industrial, Klauser successfully managed and restructured large business units in Europe and the USA and maintained profitability in a competitive market. As the COO of CNH Industrial for the EMEA region, he was responsible for the integration of 12 brands and nine units (among them Iveco, New Holland, Case IH and STEYR) in Turin.