Turner, sixth from right, accepts European Rental Association rental company of the year award in 2016.
After a six-and-a-half-year stint as CEO of Riwal, Norty Turner has resigned to begin a new chapter in his career. Under Turner’s leadership, together with the management team, Riwal transformed operationally, commercially, financially, and culturally to become one of the world’s leading powered access rental companies.
“Norty Turner leaves Riwal in a very strong position for future growth and we sincerely thank him for his leadership, conviction and passion during his time as CEO and wish him a successful continuation of his career,” said Ellen Meijer, a member of Riwal’s board of directors.
Riwal will immediately begin recruitment of a new CEO.
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.
