MEC Hires Aerial Industry Veteran Dave Hubbell

Industry veteran Dave Hubbell joins MEC Aerial Work Platforms as vice president of CAT Rental North America accounts.
Sept. 11, 2019
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Industry veteran Dave Hubbell joins MEC Aerial Work Platforms as vice president of CAT Rental North America Accounts. In this role his primary focus will be on strengthening MEC’s partnership with targeted accounts including CAT Rentals dealer network. Hubbell comes to MEC with 34 years of experience in forging lifelong relationships with customers and other aerial industry professionals.                                                                                                                                                      

“MEC continues to expand its sales force with incredibly talented, experienced, and high-energy professionals” says David White, president of MEC.  “We are excited to welcome Dave to our team!”

 Hubbell’s successful career started in 1984 at Genie Industries as a regional salesman covering the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West. In 1998 he was promoted to vice president with the task of leading a sales team in building new relationships and business partners with Caterpillar dealers in the United States and Canada as well as the Papé Group in the west. In 2017 he was promoted once again to lead a new sales division focusing on national and strategic Accounts.

“I worked directly with Dave for over 15 years and his level of knowledge of the access business is unparalleled,” says Pat Witte, vice president of global sales & business development. “This coupled with his deep routed relationships within the CAT Rental network brings great value to the MEC family and serves to strengthen MEC’s commitment to providing personalized service at a world class level.”

MEC Aerial Work Platforms is a manufacturer of a line of aerial work platforms based in Kerman, Calif.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.

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