Atlas Copco Construction Equipment Names Marion VP, Region Canada

Sept. 6, 2017

Mike Marion has more than 20 years of construction industry experience.

Atlas Copco Construction Equipment North America has named Mike Marion vice president – Region Canada. Marion will lead Canadian sales and marketing efforts for products in the newly named Atlas Copco Power Technique business area. Marion has more than 20 years of industry experience, including six years in leadership positions with Atlas Copco Construction Equipment Canada.

Marion joined Atlas Copco Construction Equipment Canada in 2011 as product and business development manager – air compressors and generators and was promoted to national business development manager – power generation in 2014. For the past two years, Marion was vice president and business line manager – construction tools division.

Marion has deep expertise in the core products of the Atlas Copco Power Technique business area, formerly known as the Construction Technique business area. Products include portable compressors, generators, light towers and pumps, handheld pneumatic, electric and hydraulic construction tools and compaction and concrete products. Marion is bilingual, fluent in English and French, and based in Mississauga, Ontarion, a suburb of Toronto.

Before joining Atlas Copco, Marion worked in product management, sales and service for Volvo Construction Equipment in Canada.

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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.