Graeme Macdonald

Rocester, United Kingdom
JCB has announced a successor to CEO Alan Blake who will retire at the end of the year. Blake, 63, joined JCB in 1989 and became CEO in 2010 after holding a number of senior positions in the company and after leading the biggest production expansion in JCB's history.
His successor will be Graeme Macdonald, 45, who became CEO Designate from June 1. Macdonald has held a variety of senior roles during his 16 years at JCB and was most recently the company's COO. He was previously MD of the company's Backhoe Loader Business Unit, based at the World HQ in Rocester and also held the position of president of JCB Inc based at JCB's North American HQ in Savannah, Georgia.

Hannover, Germany
Bernd Rohde has been appointed the new project manager for CeMAT. Rohde is a tradeshow specialist who has a wealth of international experience. Raised in Mexico, he studied economics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, before beginning his career at the German-Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City, where he was put in charge of investments, projects and market research.

Rohde succeeds Manfred Kutzinski at the Deutsche Messe group, who was recently appointed project manager for product launch and innovations management, a capacity which involves supporting the group's foreign subsidiaries to further develop and refine exhibition themes and organisational processes. In addition to CeMAT Hannover, Rohde is responsible for the foreign-based intralogistics trade shows produced by Deutsche Messe. These include CeMAT ASIA, CeMAT RUSSIA, CeMAT INDIA, CeMAT SOUTH AMERICA, Materials Handling Eurasia and Intralogistica Italia. Rohde reports to Wolfgang Pech, senior vice president at Deutsche Messe.

Irvine, CA, United States
Toyota Material Handling USA Inc (TMHU) has appointed Tracey Stachniak as national manager of human resources. Stachniak is responsible for the overall department of human resources and managing organisational change that balances the expectations and needs of Toyota and the employees. Since 2007, she has held a series of managerial roles in the human resources department of Toyota. Before joining Toyota in 2005, she served as a sales analyst for Mitsubishi Motors of North America.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Jungheinrich UK Ltd has appointed Hamid Khajehpour as warehouse management systems product manager. Khajehpour has worked in the logistics and IT sectors for over 20 years and has extensive experience in the design and implementation of warehousing and distribution operations and associated IT systems at both national and international levels.

Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom
Pyroban has appointed Pieter Kroezen as sales manager. Kroezen has 20 years' experience in the forklift industry, including a wealth of experience in the German market, especially in dealer relationship development. He will help to strengthen communications with existing customers in Scandinavia and Germany, and introduce Pyroban to potential new customers.