Volvo Construction Equipment Hires New President
Volvo Construction Equipment has named Melker Jernberg president of Volvo Construction Equipment and member of the Volvo Group Executive Board, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Jernberg replaces Martin Weissburg who has decided to move back to the United States for family reasons and will take up a position as senior advisor to Volvo president and CEO Martin Lundstedt. Weissburg will be stationed in Greensboro, N.C.
“Martin Weissburg has, through his strong leadership, been key to the considerable improvement in the performance of Volvo Construction Equipment and he will continue to have senior positions within the Volvo Group,” said Lundstedt. “Martin Weissburg will remain in his position until year end 2017 and take up his new position as senior advisor to me during the course of Q1 2018.”
Jernberg was born in 1968 and is currently president and CEO of the Sweden-based power metallurgy company Höganäs AB. Prior to that, Jernberg was executive vice president and head of business area EMEA at Swedish-based steel manufacturer SSAB. He will begin in his new position Jan. 1.
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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.