Alabama-based CraneWorks Names Kenny Bishop its New President
Birmingham, Ala.-based CraneWorks has named industry veteran Kenny Bishop its new president. A native of Birmingham, Ala., Bishop attended Shades Valley High School and graduated from the University of Alabama with a B.S. in Mining Engineering. After working for Drummond Co. for a few years, he began a long career with Thompson Tractor, the Caterpillar dealer for Alabama and Northwest Florida. Over his 28 ½ years with Thompson, he served as a sales representative, region manager, and vice president of sales. In his role as vice president, he was responsible for the heavy equipment department and served as general manager of the Cat Rental Store.
Most recently, Bishop was president and CEO of Ascendum Machinery, the Volvo heavy equipment dealer in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, east Tennessee and North Dakota.
Bishop will report to owners David and Steve Upton, who serve as CEO and chief financial officer, respectively.
CraneWorks also has branches in Mobile, Ala., and Nashville, Tenn. It has a sister company RentalWorks. CraneWorks offers a fleet of truck, crawler and all terrain cranes topped by a 400 tonne Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1. Its sister company, RentalWorks, offers a range of general rental equipment including powered access, telehandlers, forklifts, spider cranes and earth moving equipment.
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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.