KOBELCO Construction Names New VP of Operations
KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA announce the appointment of Randy Hall as vice president of operations.
KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA announce the appointment of Randy Hall as vice president of operations.
Hall brings with him to this newly appointed position more than 35 years of experience in the equipment industry and a proven track record in building and managing key relationships with equipment dealerships, national accounts and finance partners. Most recently, Hall served as KOBELCO’s National Sales Manager and was instrumental in establishing the company’s preferred crawler excavator supplier agreements following the company’s brand relaunch in 2013.
In this new role, Hall will develop, inspire and engage KOBELCO’s team of territory managers, direct all field sales efforts and dealer development initiatives, manage national accounts and finance partnerships and oversee the overall workflow at KOBELCO’s headquarters in Houston.
He will work directly with the KOBELCO executive management team to support the company’s long term business strategy in an effort to meet sales goals and customer demands, while assisting territory managers with forecasting, inventory suggestions, delivery estimates and overall growth plans to continually improve upon the financial performance of the business. Hall will replace former Vice President of Operations Ron Hargrave who now serves in an advisory role for the company.
KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA is dedicated to producing a full range of crawler excavators in the 3,000 – 184,000 pound classes for the rental, landscape, construction, aggregate, roadbuilding, material handling, site preparation, recycling, and ancillary markets, including zero tail swing, standard, long-reach and compact models. For more information on KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA or KOBELCO products, please visit www.KOBELCO-USA.com or call (281) 288-8430.
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