Mike Rhoda

Peachtree City, GA, United States
Mike Rhoda has replaced Tim Frank as CEO of Sany America Inc. Rhoda is a construction and industrial equipment executive with extensive international experience in marketing, operations, product development and sales. He has over 20 years of experience in the off-highway equipment sector, including in Asia and emerging markets. Prior to being named CEO, he was chief technology officer with Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment. He also served at Volvo Construction Equipment as vice president of product development, and then president and CEO of the excavator business line. Rhoda has also previously served in various senior management positions at Ingersoll Rand. He holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. As CEO, he has overall responsibility for manufacturing, sales, marketing and support for all Sany equipment products in the US, Canada, Mexico and Central America.

Hyvinkää, Finland
Hannu Rusanen, executive vice president and head of business area equipment for Konecranes, is leaving the company to pursue other interests. Rusanen will stay with Konecranes until his successor is found. The recruitment process for his position has started.
Konecranes president and CEO Pekka Lundmark has thanked Rusanen for his "tireless efforts on behalf of Konecranes" over the past 10 years. "During this time, he has held several key positions in regional management, the service business and, most recently, in the equipment business - all of which have been instrumental to our development."

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Jungheinrich UK Ltd has appointed Jan Lorenz as managing director, effective from 1 January 2014. Lorenz replaces Hans-Herbert Schultz who, after seven years in the role, has taken over responsibility for sales in North-West Europe and will be based in Germany.
Lorenz has over 10 years of experience within the Jungheinrich Group. For the last six-and-a-half years, he has headed up the group's marketing and sales steering operation. Before this, he worked for Jungheinrich in the US, where he developed a dealer network on the east coast of the US and in eastern Canada, and later became the director of direct sales.

Peter Damberg

Mjölby, Sweden
Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE) has appointed Peter Damberg as vice president of HR, effective from 1 January 2014. Damberg has over 13 years' experience in human resources at Seco Tools AB and IF Property & Casualty Insurance. Most recently, he has been working as senior vice president HR for Sandvik Venture.

Wixom, MI, United States
Integrated Systems Design (ISD) and Anderson Material Handling (AMH) have promoted Tom Wolsos, a veteran warehouse automation expert, to the new position of channel director. Wolsos will be responsible for both internal and partner channel activities related to the design, development and implementation of automated warehouse, manufacturing and distribution systems, including ISD's complete line of automated UltraProducts. He has worked as a senior account executive for ISD, sales manager for Siemens Dematic and sales and general manager for JB Webb Company. He has also been active in the Rack Manufacturers Institute, MHI and Material Handling Equipment Dealers Association organisations.