Movers & Shakers

Local News
- 26 Mar 2020 ( #967 )
2 min read
Burke
Burke
Wabash, IN, United States
Paul Burke has joined Bulldog Battery Corporation as northeast regional manager.
He brings over 20 years of materials handling industry expertise to the organisation and has been with Briggs Equipment since 2015.
Burke has held various positions in the sales and sales management arenas. He has spent time with the Hyster-Yale Group as a regional manager as well as having held multiple roles at the dealer and distributor levels as territory manager, major accounts manager and sales manager.
His area of primary responsibility will be growing, strengthening and developing the company's distribution network and working on specific strategic account initiatives.
Burke holds a bachelors degree from the University of South Florida and resides in Tampa, FL.

Dietvorst
Dietvorst
Tulsa, OK, United States
The Crosby Group
has appointed Thomas Dietvorst as general manager, load monitoring, as David Ayling, the former owner of the Straightpoint (SP) company, steps into a consultancy role.
Dietvorst will take the reins at SP's manufacturing facility and headquarters, co-located in Hampshire, UK, which became Crosby's centre of excellence for load monitoring and measurement following the January 2019 acquisition. He will report to Jason Colwell, managing director, EMEA at Crosby. Ayling, meanwhile, will transition from his temporary role as global business development director for load monitoring solutions to long-term consultant.
Dietvorst, 30, was previously strategic marketing manager at Crosby, based in Belgium, having joined the company two years ago as product manager.

Fallarini
Fallarini
Casoni di Podenzano, Italy
Carlo Fallarini has been appointed as global marketing director of the Bolzoni group. In his new role, he will be responsible for management and development of new products, coordinating the global communication activity and leading the Training Academy for new and present employees of the group. Fallarini has held the position of director of sales and marketing at Bolzoni for the past 20 years.
Meanwhile, Uwe Killmann has been appointed as sales director for EMEA, LATAM and Indian Ocean. He will be responsible for the development of the business in this territory and coordination of the sales activity in the field for the group. Killmann joined Meyer GmbH, a Bolzoni group company, on 1 April 2019 as business development director.
In another appointment, Paolo Marenghi has been named as new sales manager for Italy, leading the regional sales team and the internal sales department for the Italian market. Marenghi has covered different areas in Italy as area sales manager in the past 30 years.
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