ZTR Control Systems Brings in Director of Commercial Development

Software designer ZTR Control Systems has appointed Paul Wilson director of commercial development for its Industrial IoT division. Wilson brings more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles in the telecommunications sector, in the industrial automation realm and with professional services for the industrial and commercial marketplace.

Michael Roth

July 11, 2016

2 min read

Paul Wilson has more than 25 years in sales leadership roles in telecommunications and industrial automation.

“Paul is a consummate professional and has proven experience building both highly skilled teams, and collaborative relationships,” said Michael Tidy, vice president and general manager of the Industrial IoT division at ZTR Control Systems. “His depth of knowledge in technology as well as business are a huge benefit to ZTR.”

Wilson said his immediate priorities are to drive business value for key ZTR customers and to develop and grow services in new accounts leveraging the ONE i3 platform. He will focus on executing ZTR’s growth strategy in the equipment rental and industrial OEM areas.

“This is familiar ground and I feel very much at home among the ZTR team,” said Wilson. “The company is a well-recognized brand providing end-to-end industrial IoT solutions to many of the top companies in our chosen markets. I’m excited to join a company that has all of the in-house talent and capacity required to support tailored solutions of each customer.”

ZTR Control Systems provides telematics and intelligent industrial equipment management solutions, allowing companies to remotely monitor and manage mobile and fixed assets.

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.