Acme Lift Names Meagan Reeves Senior VP of Gulf Coast Region

Meagan Reeves, who has 17 years in the industrial and rental market, has joined Acme Lift Co. as senior vice president of Gulf Coast North American Operations.

Michael Roth

Dec. 30, 2015

2 min read

Meagan Reeves a rental industry veteran will play a leadership role for Acme Lift in the Gulf Coast region — Meagan Reeves, a rental industry veteran, will play a leadership role for Acme Lift in the Gulf Coast region.

Meagan Reeves, who has 17 years in the industrial and rental market, has joined Acme Lift Co. as senior vice president of Gulf Coast North American Operations. She will play a key role in charting the strategic direction of the world’s largest wholesale rental company.

Reeves began her career with ABB Lummus Global, a worldwide engineering and procurement company, where she gained experience working with many national and international vendors in the petrochemical industry. In 2003 she joined Sunbelt Rentals as an outside sales representative. There she developed her product knowledge and relationships with industrial and commercial contractors. After much success she progressed from sales to key account manager focusing on plants and large industrial contractors throughout the Gulf Region.

“Meagan brings a wealth of knowledge of the industrial and commercial rental market,” said Mike Crouch, Acme Lift president and chief operating officer. “Her experience with our product and the Gulf Coast region makes Meagan a perfect fit for the Acme team.”

Reeves will be based out of Southeast Texas and cover the Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas markets. Her “hands on” approach and extensive knowledge of the area’s construction market make her a valuable resource to the rental companies Acme services.

“I am looking forward to my journey with Acme Lift and their amazing team” Reeves said. “I am confident that we can take the relationship and fleet growth to a whole new level.”

Acme Lift re-rents large aerial work platforms and telehandlers to rental companies throughout North America. Based in Mesa, Ariz., Acme Lift Co. is No. 64 on the RER 100.

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.