HERC Names Richard Marani Chief Information Officer

June 24, 2015

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The experienced Marani is expected to ensure HERC39s systems are well prepared for its eventual status as a standalone company — The experienced Marani is expected to ensure HERC's systems are well prepared for its eventual status as a stand-alone company.

Hertz Equipment Rental Corp., on the heels of hiring Bruce Dressel as chief operating officer, has named IT veteran Richard Marani chief information officer, reporting to Larry Silber, president and CEO of HERC. Marani joins HERC as part of its preparation for its separation from Hertz Global Holdings, the company said.

“Rich Marani has a track record of delivering on business critical IT objectives and overseeing successful information system transformations,” said Silber. “He will be an invaluable asset to HERC as we plan for the future. Rich has already led an information technology team through a spin-off transaction and brings executive-level IT experience to ensure that our infrastructure enables our business plans.”

Marani has more than 30 years of IT experience across industrial products, construction equipment, aerospace, and information technology businesses. As HERC CIO, Marani will be responsible to ensure that the company has the proper technologies and systems in place to support the planned separation and future growth.

Marani began his career at General Electric, transitioning into IT and going on to become an information technology leader. Following a successful role at United Technologies, Marani joined Ingersoll Rand Corp. in 2002 as vice president of IT, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of global IT strategies. While there, he built out IT systems in advance of the spin-off of the Construction Equipment division to Doosan Infracore, then assuming the IT leadership role at Doosan.

After four years with Doosan, Marani returned to Ingersoll in a senior IT leadership role, responsible for global IT strategy for a $3 billion sector of the Ingersoll portfolio.

HERC, based in Naples, Fla., has more than 350 locations worldwide and more than 260 in North America.

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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.