ANA Inc. Hires Joe Norris as National Service Manager
ANA Inc, the North American distributor of Airman air compressors and generators and Grid to Go hybrid power systems, has hired Joseph Norris as national service manager.
ANA Inc, the North American distributor of Airman air compressors and generators and Grid to Go hybrid power systems, has hired Joseph Norris as national service manager.
“Joe brings fantastic customer-centric support and training experience to the ANA team.” said Mike Niemela, CEO. “Our commitment to continually investing in serving our customers better has set us apart in the industry and fueled our rapid growth. We are looking forward to Joe’s contributions.”
Norris brings more than 20 years of field service experience with him to ANA, most recently holding the position of field services manager oil and gas at Generac-Magnum Power Products. His main role is to build and lead the ANA support department, establish customer training programs and travel around the country visiting customers. Norris will be based out of Colorado.
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.
