Light Tower Rentals Promotes Three to Grow Power Generation Business

Light Tower Rentals, a major equipment rental company renting equipment in to the oil-and-gas industry, has promoted three employees to increase its focus on the power generation segment of its business, particularly natural gas generators.
Nov. 11, 2015
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Light Tower Rentals, a major equipment rental company renting equipment in to the oil-and-gas industry, has promoted three employees to increase its focus on the power generation segment of its business, particularly natural gas generators.

Jon Galle was promoted to senior product manager, production power. Galle joined LTR in 2013 and has more than 40 years of experience in engineering, operations and manufacturing management, including 29 years of direct oil-and-gas experience.

Chad Wolf was named product manager, natural gas generators, and has been involved with the oil-and-gas industry for more than 25 years. Wolf worked for Caterpillar in Oklahoma for 12 years. He has helped customers provide power generator to hospitals, data centers, offshore platforms and remote drilling operations. Wolf has been instrumental in growing the LTR natural gas-fueled generator product line.

Jonathon Garcia was promoted to business development, natural gas generators. Garcia illustrates LTR’s new way to use portable power generators that operate off of well-head gas and liquid propane. He has more than 12 years in the equipment rental business.

Light Tower Rentals, which rents a wide variety of equipment – not only light towers – is based in Odessa, Texas operates branches in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Pennsylvania, focusing on the oil-and-gas sector.

About the Author

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.

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