Heavy Duty Trucking, April 2019
HDT APRIL 2019 26 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM Hotline TRUCKINGS MOST RESPECTED BUSINESS REPORT Nikola Motors announced that Mark Russell is joining its executive management team as president Nikola hailed Russell as a seasoned executive with a 20 year track record of building successful manufacturing companies Most recently Russell served as president and chief operating officer of Worthington Industries Hino Trucks named Shigehiro Matsuoka president and CEO of Hino North America He succeeds Yoshinori Noguchi who is stepping down Workhorse Group appointed former company director of research and development Robert Willison to the position of chief operating officer His appointment follows the promotion of Duane Hughes to Workhorse CEO Willison returns to Workhorse after serving as director of fleet technology at Sysco Corp where he managed Syscos electric vehicle initiative Fontaine Heavy Haul a Marmon Highway Technologies company promoted Bryan Metz to president from the position of sector chief financial officer of Marmon Metz has been with the MHT family of companies since 2009 originally serving as Fontaine Fifth Wheels vice president of finance and controller Meritor promoted Carl Anderson group VP finance to senior VP and chief financial officer following Kevin Nowlans resignation from his role as senior VP and president trailer and components and chief financial officer to accept a CFO position with another company Joe Plomin is appointed senior VP and president aftermarket and industrial and trailer and will assume expanded responsibility for the trailer and components businesses Tom Ninneman joined Monroe Truck Equipment as president and CEO He has held numerous executive leadership roles most recently at Spartan Motors and Utilimaster Monroe also named Scott Hanewall VP of sales and marketing Hanewall served MTE as the GM for its Flint Michigan and Louisville Kentucky facilities Dale Chrystie of FedEx was elected the first chair of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance Standards Council Chrystie a business fellow and blockchain strategist at FedEx has been an advocate on behalf of BiTA since its founding in August 2017 He will continue to help naviON THE MOVE RUSSELL MATSUOKA WILLISON METZ NINNEMAN CHRYSTIE
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