Durante Rentals, a leading equipment rental company in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area, has named Kenneth Cockrill president of the company. Cockrill brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience in strategy planning, sales and operations management with various construction and industrial organizations. Cockrill holds dual degrees in engineering and applied sciences from Lamar University.
“We are excited to have Kenneth join our rapidly developing and improving leadership team,” said Anthony Durante, executive chairman. “He possesses leadership amongst peers, has a high emotional quotient, while being able to meet targets and goals. Kenneth will immediately take on the responsibility of day-to-day operations and reporting while overseeing some key long-term projects. His addition will allow me to focus on the strategic direction and growth of our company.”
Durante rents and sells equipment to a wide range of customers working in general construction, facilities maintenance, civil construction, homebuilding, structural engineering, entertainment, and government. Durante Rentals is No. 81 on the RER 100 and a seven-time INC 5000 Hall of Fame award winner. For more information about Durante Rentals, visit duranterentals.com.
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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.