Aggreko North America Names Russell Schuster Managing Director

Power generation and HVAC specialty rental company Aggreko plc has named Russell Schuster managing director, North America. In this role, Schuster will work strategically across Aggreko North America’s business units to achieve operational goals and capitalize on market opportunities.

Michael Roth

April 3, 2017

2 min read

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Prior to his current appointment, Schuster served in multiple leadership positions within the Aggreko organization, most recently as senior vice president of global temperature control for Aggreko Rental Solutions, and head of mergers and acquisitions for North America where he was responsible for leading M&A initiatives and eight of the company’s key product lines. Schuster was also senior vice president North Business Unit and served in other general leadership roles throughout the business. Before joining Aggreko in 2008, Schuster worked for seven years at KPMG LLP in various business development and leadership management roles.

“We are proud to leverage Russell’s extensive knowledge and leadership garnered from his eight years of experience with Aggreko,” said Pool. “His entrepreneurial spirit, proven ability to drive growth, and success in driving product and regional sales performance provides an invaluable amount of insight for our North American team.”

“I am excited to be back in North America with a focus on delivering excellence to our customers every day,” said Schuster. “Aggreko has an extremely talented group of sales and technical resources that can move mountains.”

Schuster will be based in Aggreko’s North American headquarters in Houston.

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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.