Herc Rentals Names Leslie Hunziker Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications

Hunziker will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s investor relations program, including serving as the principal contact with the investment community, as well as the company’s corporate communications and brand programs.

Michael Roth

Oct. 31, 2022

2 min read

Herc Holdings has hired Leslie Hunziker as senior vice president, investor relations and communications.

In this critical role, Hunziker will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s investor relations program, including serving as the principal contact with the investment community, as well as the company’s corporate communications and brand programs. She will succeed Elizabeth Higashi, vice president, investor relations and sustainability, and Paul Dickard, vice president, communications, who will transition their duties in phases prior to their planned retirements in late 2023.

Hunziker was most recently senior vice president, investor relations and communications, for Wesco International Inc., a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Pittsburgh. Prior to that, for 12 years she was senior vice president, investor relations, communications and ESG, for Hertz Global Holdings. She was also previously executive director of investor relations at Tenneco for seven years.

“Leslie brings comprehensive investor relations and communications experience, strategic insight and seasoned executive leadership to our company,” said Larry Silber, president and CEO. “She also has great familiarity with Herc Rentals and the equipment rental industry, and I am confident that her contributions will advance our long-term strategic initiatives.”

Herc Rentals, No. 3 on the RER 100, is based in Bonita Springs, Fla.

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.