David Furman

GREENE, NY, United States
Raymond Corp has appointed David Furman as vice president of marketing. Furman has over 15 years' experience in marketing management including multi-channel distribution, marketing, business and product development, and technical support. He was previously Agfa Corp's senior manager of business and channel development of the NAFTA region.

MILWAUKEE, WI, United States

Megan Tanel

Larry Charrlin

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has appointed Richard Jefferson to the newly created position of senior director of public relations. Jefferson has over 20 years' experience in communications and managerial positions. He was the director of external affairs for the US Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency's public affairs office in Washington, DC.

Megan Tanel is now AEM's vice president of exhibitions. She will oversee all trade show activities for events based in the US, including the CONEXPO-CON/AGG construction exhibition and ICUEE. Tanel was directing AEM expo services like housing and registration in her role as director of CONEXPO-CON/AGG and ICUEE.

AEM has formed a separate international exhibitions department to oversee the association's overseas shows like CONEXPO Asia and CONEXPO Russia. Larry Charrlin will lead the department as executive director of international exhibitions. He was in an executive-mentoring role for AEM's exhibitions department.