Ames Taping Tools, the leading provider of automatic taping and finishing tools, supplies and training to the professional drywall finishing industry, announced that Jay Davisson has been appointed as its new CEO effective April 3. Davisson succeeds Fred Daniels, who is leaving the company after six years to pursue other interests.
On behalf of Ames and Sun Capital Partners, the board would like to thank Daniels for his many years of service and leadership. Davisson joins Ames after 30 years with Sherwin-Williams, where he was most recently president of the Americas Group. In this role, he led all commercial and operational activities in North and South America, with revenues of $9 billion and an employee base of 28,000.
“I am very excited to join the company,” said Davisson. “Ames has a great company culture and reputation for outstanding customer service and quality. I look forward to working with the team as we continue to grow the business and enhance the customer experience.”
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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.