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    Former NES Chairman Andrew Studdert Named Chairman of Europe’s Renta Group

    Feb. 2, 2023
    Studdert is best known in North America as former chairman and CEO of NES Rentals, and chief operating officer for United Airlines. He is a past president and board member of IPAF.

    Renta Group Oy announced the appointment of Andrew Studdert as chairman of the board, replacing outgoing interim chairman, Alireza Etemad, who will continue to serve as a member of the board.

    Studdert has been a member of the Renta board of directors since April 2022, following the acquisition of Renta Group by IK Investment Partners on February 4, 2022. Studdert is best known in North America as former chairman and CEO of NES Rentals, and chief operating officer for United Airlines. He is a past president and board member of IPAF.

    Studdert is the founder and principal at Andrew P. Studdert & Associates, a private consultancy, focusing on operations, technology, and crisis management, which he established in 1994. He is also currently chairman at WASH, and a board member and audit committee chairman at Alta Equipment Group. Studdert has previously served on the boards of Target Hospitality, as compensation committee chairman, and international rental giant Cramo.

    “We are really looking forward to continuing to work with Andy, whose broad experience in the rental sector will be greatly beneficial to the senior management team and the board of Renta,” said Kari Aulasmaa, CEO of Renta Group.

    Renta Group is a Northern European full-service equipment rental company founded in Finland in 2015. The company has operations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, and the Baltics, with 135 depots and approximately 1,500 employees. Renta is a general rental company with a wide range of construction machines and equipment along with related services. In addition to operating a network of rental locations, Renta is a significant supplier of scaffolding and weather-protection services.

    For more information, visit www.renta.com

    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.