MEC Aerial Work Platforms has named Matt Lyons senior national accounts manager. In this role, Matt will drive and further strengthen MEC’s partnerships with North America’s leading rental companies. Lyons comes to MEC with much experience in the lift equipment industry, most recently holding positions at manufacturers Magni Telescopic Handlers and Skyjack. Before that, Lyons worked for Time Savers, an equipment rental company.
“We are proud to bring a person of Matt’s caliber to the MEC team,” said Paul Waller, MEC’s vice president of North America Sales. “Our continued growth and expansion demand an increased level of collaboration and strategic planning with our customers. Matt’s industry knowledge, relationships, and professionalism will serve MEC and our customers very well.”
“It’s great to get back with an aerial work platform manufacturer,” said Lyons. “MEC’s scissor lifts, boom lifts, and vertical platform lifts are well-received by end-users and safety professionals and are becoming a core offering for North American rental companies. I look forward to representing these innovative, leading-edge products and the company.”
For more information on MEC Aerial Work Platforms, visit www.MECawp.com.
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.