Acme Lift Hires Mike Cohan as Senior VP of Operations in Northeast

Acme Lift has hired Mike Cohan as its new senior vice president of operations in the Northeast where his extensive experience in the East Coast rental market will provide customers with service in renting the largest boomlifts, telehandlers and portable air compressors.
Feb. 10, 2016
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Acme Lift has hired Mike Cohan as its new senior vice president of operations in the Northeast where his extensive experience in the East Coast rental market will provide customers with service in renting the largest boomlifts, telehandlers and portable air compressors.

Cohan will be based in New Jersey and will cover the northeastern region including New England, New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

“Mike Cohan is a longtime industry veteran and he brings to Acme Lift a lifetime of rental experience and relationships,” said Woody Weld, Acme Lift chairman and CEO.

“Mike has proven over decades that he will bring significant depth to the Acme team,” added Mike Crouch, Acme Lift’s president and chief operating officer.

Cohan was vice president of Able Equipment Rental for two years before joining Acme Lift. He previously was vice president of operations for Jesco Inc. and general manager for Admar Supply.

Brian Staney, Acme Lift’s vice president of business development for the eastern United States is now senior vice president of the company’s Midwest region.

Mesa, Ariz.-based Acme Lift is the world’s largest wholesale rental company with boomlifts reaching to 185 feet; 8,000- to 40,000-pound telehandlers, and large portable air compressors. Acme Lift is No. 64 on the RER 100.

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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.

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