Ames Taping Tools, the leading provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies, and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, has hired Doug Denard as its new regional vice president of the West Region, effective October 13. Denard brings with him nearly three decades of experience in the equipment rental industry from HERC Rentals, where he held various senior-level leadership roles.
“I am excited to join Ames in this role and very much look forward to working with the Ames team to grow the business and enhance the customer experience,” said Denard. “The company culture and focus on customer service are first-rate and I look forward to utilizing my experience to further amplify the Ames brand.”
“We are very excited to welcome Doug to the Ames team,” said Matt Ladd, vice president of stores. “Throughout his career, Doug has shown himself to be an extraordinary leader with a proven track record. His years of experience in rental and sales, as well as his focus on the customer experience at the store level, make him an excellent addition to our organization.”
Ames Taping Tools, based in Stone Mountain, Ga., is No. 85 on the RER 100.
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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.