Bronto Skylift has appointed Jarmo Kokkola and Juha Särkijärvi as project managers to oversee and develop the total order-to-delivery process. Kokkola is a long-time Bronto staffer with 12 years of experience from engineering, product management and sales within the company. Juha Särkijärvi (pictured) is a new Bronto employee with extensive project management experience from the automation and energy industries in Europe and North America. Särkijärvi joins Bronto from Valmet Technologies, where he served for the last 16 years.
“With their different backgrounds, Juha and Jarmo are a perfect mix for this important function and enable us to get a more in-depth grasp of our overall project management,” said Roberto Quintero, sales, marketing, project and product management director, Bronto Skylift. “With their help, we will be able to take the customers’ experience to new heights.”
Bronto Skylift is a global leader in truck-mounted, hydraulic platforms. It designs, manufactures, sells and services appliances for rescue and firefighting as well as for industrial access. It is headquartered in Finland, with subsidiaries in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. To learn more, visit: www.brontoskylift.com
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Michael Roth
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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.