PERSONNEL NEWS

Aug. 1, 1999
UpRight, Selma, Calif., hires Lee Kramer for the newly created position of engineering manager for scissorlifts and portable products.Genie Industries,

UpRight, Selma, Calif., hires Lee Kramer for the newly created position of engineering manager for scissorlifts and portable products.

Genie Industries, Redmond, Wash., hires Ron Bradshaw, Ron Selby and Todd Yager as regional sales managers.

Time Condor Corp., Waco, Texas, hires three new regional sales managers for the self-propelled Condor product line: Kent Upton, Nick Preziosi and Matt Halloran.

Gregg Robisch is appointed national accounts sales manager for BlueBird International, Denver.

The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, Old Town Alexandria, Va., elects Dave Zerfoss, president of Husqvarna Forest & Garden, chairman. Mike Ariens, chairman of Ariens Co., is elected vice chairman and Warner Frazier secretary/ treasurer. Also serving on the board this year will be Patrick Curtiss, William Docherty, David Ferris, Alan W. Herstrum, Kendrick Melrose, Edward Shultz, Philip Tralies, Mark Rostvold and Akio Urakami.

TruServ, Chicago, promotes Neil Hastie to assistant vice president of e-business and Bob Perrin to assistant vice president of the corporate technology group. Beth Grimm joins as corporate controller.

The new president of Eagle Picher, Lubbock, Texas, is Randy Holloway.

Aichi America, Rockford, Ill., announces the addition of Alan Dotts as customer service manager.