United Rentals Names Kim Harris Jones to Board of Directors
United Rentals today announced Kim Harris Jones has joined the company’s board of directors. Her appointment expands the composition of the board to 12 members, of which 11 are independent directors. Harris Jones will serve on the audit committee.
Harris Jones served as senior vice president and corporate controller of Mondelez International Inc., a global publicly traded snacking foods business, from 2012 to 2015. Previously she worked as senior vice president and corporate controller of Kraft Foods from 2009 to 2012. Before working for Kraft, she held numerous leadership roles during 17 years with Chrysler Group LLC, and earlier with General Motors Co. Harris Jones has an MBA in finance and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Michigan. She is also a CPA.
“We are delighted to welcome Kim to our board of directors,” said Jenne Britell, chairman of United Rentals. “She brings decades of senior finance experience with multinational public companies and an extensive understanding of the industrial and consumer markets. Kim’s diverse insights will be a valuable addition to the board as we continue to work closely with the executive team to provide governance and strategic insight.”
Harris Jones also serves on the boards of TrueBlue Inc., and the Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association. She is a member of the finance committee of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management and the Executive Leadership Council. Harris Jones has been named to the list of 100 Leading Women in the Auto Industry by Automotive News, as well as the list of 25 Women to Watch by CFO magazine. She was also listed as one of the 75 Most Powerful Women in Business by Black Enterprise Magazine.
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Michael Roth
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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.