United Rentals Hires Ted Grace as Vice President of Investor Relations

United Rentals has appointed Ted Grace as vice president-investor relations, effective immediately. Grace will be responsible for managing communications between the company’s leadership, its investors and the broader financial community.

Michael Roth

April 8, 2016

2 min read

Grace has more than 20 years of experience in financial services. Most recently, he was a senior analyst with Susquehanna International Group covering the industrial machinery and building materials sector. Before Susquehanna, Grace was vice president at Avondale Partners with responsibility for the building materials, construction and mining equipment research group; a member of the equity research team at Goldman Sachs & Co.; a member of the natural resources group at Banc of America Securities; and an associate at PaineWebber.

“Ted Grace is uniquely qualified to represent our company to investors,” said Michael Kneeland, president and CEO of United Rentals. “He has followed United Rentals for years as part of his research portfolio, and he understands the dynamics of the equipment rental industry. Ted will inherit the strong investor relationships forged by Fred Bratman over 12 years with our company. I want to thank Fred for his many contributions and I look forward to working closely with Ted to further our relations with the investment community.”

Based in Stamford, Conn., United Rentals is No. 1 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.