Tejas Equipment Rental Names New CFO

Tejas Equipment Rental, a privately held Texas company with seven locations service south and central Texas, has hired Raymond Prior, CPA, as chief financial officer.

Michael Roth

Aug. 15, 2018

Prior has more than 25 years of rental finance accounting and leadership experience — Prior has more than 25 years of rental, finance, accounting and leadership experience.

Tejas Equipment Rental, a privately held Texas company with seven locations serving south and central Texas, has hired Raymond Prior, CPA, as chief financial officer. Prior has more than 25 years of rental, finance, accounting and leadership experience.

Prior will be providing financial leadership and continuous evaluation of short- and long-term strategic objectives, planning, implementing, managing and controlling business activities.

Prior serves on the board of trustees at Meals on Wheels San Antonio, and is on the executive committee of the Greater San Antonio Ethics and Compliance Roundtable.

Based in McAllen, Texas, the company has branches in Brownsville, Edinburg, New Braunfels, San Antonio, San Benito and San Marcos, Texas.

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.