Mazzotta Rentals Names Former Able CFO as Chief Administrative Officer
Mazzotta Rentals Inc., a supplier of construction equipment rentals, sales, service, and parts, has named Thomas Caldaroni chief administrative officer. Caldaroni has held numerous leadership roles with operational and financial responsibilities for large Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller to medium-sized enterprises. Most recently, Caldaroni served as CFO of Able Equipment Rentals Inc. in New York, managing its recent sale to United Rentals.
"We're thrilled to have a proven leader like Tom join our team," said CEO Joseph Mazzotta. "He has the unique ability to quickly digest functional processes while fostering immediate and continuous improvement."
"Tom brings with him strong financial skills and key industry relationships, and he has previously demonstrated a successful strategic leadership approach," said David Pugliares, Mazzotta's chief financial officer. "Tom will be a vital team member as we continue to execute on our existing growth plans."
Mazzotta has branches in Middletown, Conn., and Agawam, Mass. It was originally founded in 1963 as a construction company. Today, it is one of the largest, and fastest growing, independent equipment rental companies in New England, providing equipment rentals, sales, and service to a wide variety of commercial, industrial, retail, residential, and municipal customers throughout New England and New York. Its fleet includes mobile elevating work platforms, telehandlers/forklifts, industrial fork trucks, rotating telehandlers, stock pickers, air compressors, generators and light towers, utility vehicles, and more.
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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.