Atlas Copco Rental Division has appointed four managers to lead its growing rental market, the company said. Steve Nelson serves the national rental aftermarket as a business development manager, Norbert Matthews is area sales manager for the Midwest, Charles Clarkson is Northwest area sales manager, and Ronald Repasz is in the same role in the Southwest.
“We’re committed to building strong business relationships with our customers,” said Matt Cadnum, Atlas Copco rental channel vice president of sales. “Part of that is building a team that continues providing industry-leading assistance by offering the best equipment, parts, service and after-market support.”
The four new managers have more than 40 years of industry experience combined.
Nelson will focus on growing Atlas Copco’s after-market revenue and market share through the rental channel. Nelson has been with Atlas Copco for more than four years, and, most recently, he was regional sales manager for the west. With more than 20 years of rental industry experience, Nelson said he looks forward to working with customers to promote Atlas Copco’s construction equipment and show them what the division has to offer.
Matthews, Clarkson and Repasz will oversee operations at rental centers in their areas and will work to develop strong customer relationships. Matthews works with customers in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. He has 15 years of experience in the rental industry working for independent and national companies.
Clarkson manages Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana, and previously worked in sales and customer relations at Specialized Transport Service, a freight carrier company.
Repasz holds prior experience in sales and service at Eaton, and served 12 years in the Navy. Repasz said he looks forward to continue working with customers and building trusting relationships and that he enjoys solving problems and trading solutions.
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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.