Movers & Shakers

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- 27 Aug 2009 ( #425 )
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Hervé Rochet
Hervé Rochet
Ancenis, France
Bruno Fille has resigned from his position as Manitou BF's executive vice president and as a member of the board. Fille, who leaves the company for personal reasons, will give up all his roles in the group's subsidiaries by 30 September.
Manitou has appointed Hervé Rochet as financial director, Jérôme Tertrais as human resources director and Hervé Saulais as general secretary to the group's executive committee. Saulais will supervise all legal, information systems, internal auditing and communications functions. He spent three years in the Alcatel-Alsthom Group before occupying subsidiary management controller positions at Manitou from 1994-1997. After that, he took over the management of an industrial SME before joining SFERT, the Manitou group control holding company, as a representative.

Milwaukee, WI, United States
Mani Iyer, president of Mahindra USA Inc in Tomball, Texas, has been appointed a director of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). AEM directors help set the guidelines and operating policies of the association on behalf of its members.
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