Mazzotta Rentals Names Chris Pera Chief Operating Officer

Pera most recently oversaw the growth and transformation of Able Equipment Rentals, positioning the organization for expansion by implementing systems and metrics that provided transparency into the company’s operational performance.

Michael Roth

Feb. 16, 2024

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Mazzotta Rentals Inc., a leading supplier of construction equipment rentals, sales, service, and parts, has named Chris Pera chief operating officer.

Before joining Able, Pera founded the HiReach Group LLC., a start-up aerial lift rental company acquired by Sunbelt Rentals two years after formation. Pera has held numerous key leadership roles in the equipment industry including president of a privately held construction equipment sales and rental company in upstate New York, regional manager for Sunbelt Rentals, and president of Modern Equipment Sales & Rental Co.

“Chris is a key addition to our team and will help us strategically position the company as we expand our footprint throughout the Northeast and into the Mid-Atlantic region,” said Joseph Mazzotta, CEO of Mazzotta Equipment Rental.

Mazzotta Rentals Inc. 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 with locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts, providing equipment rentals, sales, and service to a wide variety of commercial, industrial, retail, residential, and municipal customers throughout New England and New York.

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.