Phillips Connect has promoted Cliff Creech to vice president of customer engineering, according to the company's news release.

In this role, Creech will be responsible for customizing telematics solutions to meet customer needs, leading product/feature development, integrating third-party products, and other support functions within Phillips Connect.

“Cliff has been an asset to this company since Day One,” said Rob Phillips, founder and CEO. “It’s been a great joy working with Cliff and watching him grow professionally. Cliff is going to do great things at Phillips Connect, and I couldn’t be more proud to have him as a key member of the Phillips Family.” 

Creech joined Phillips Connect in 2018 after a 20-year career with Norfolk Southern Corporation. His duties at Norfolk Southern involved managing nationwide maintenance programs for 70,000+ containers and chassis.

“Phillips Connect‘s success is driven by our focus on identifying customer needs and delivering practical telematics solutions,” Creech said. “I am gratified to be able to present these solutions to customers to help improve visibility of equipment condition and capture all of the related benefits. Rob Phillips and Jim Epler have both supported and mentored me along the way and I appreciate the trust they have shown with this promotion.”