H&E Equipment Services Names Brad Barber its Next CEO

H&E Equipment Services has promoted Bradley Barber as CEO, president and a director of the company, effective January 1, 2019. Barber will succeed current CEO John Engquist, who has been named executive chairman of the board of directors, effective January 1, 2019.

Michael Roth

Nov. 11, 2018

2 min read

HampE Equipment Services39 corporate office in Baton Rouge La — H&E Equipment Services' corporate office in Baton Rouge, La.

“We are pleased to announce Brad’s expanded role with the company,” Engquist said. “Brad has been instrumental in H&E’s success over the years and we look forward to his leadership and his contributions to the company’s future growth. As executive chairman of the board, I will lead H&E in its strategic planning and oversee merger and acquisition opportunities on a full-time basis. I will continue to work with Leslie Magee, CFO and secretary, to ensure we have the appropriate capital structure to support our growth plans and to maintain the financial health of the company. Lastly, we are most grateful for Gary’s leadership as chairman of the board and a director of the company since the company’s formation in 2005 and look forward to his continued service as a director.”

Baton Rouge, La.-based H&E Equipment Services is one of the largest integrated equipment services companies in the United States with 89 full-service facilities throughout the West Coast, Intermountain, Southwest, Gulf Coast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and is No. 10 on the RER 100. The company is focused on heavy construction and industrial equipment and rents, sells and provides parts and services support for four core categories of specialized equipment: hi-lift or aerial platform equipment; cranes; earthmoving equipment; and industrial lift trucks.

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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.