Lower than 12 months into his time as Caterpillar’s CEO, Joseph Creed will quickly upload chairman of the board to his tasks on the corporate.
Caterpillar’s former CEO and longtime govt James Umpleby III, who served on the head of the corporate from 2017 to Would possibly 2025, will officially retire April 1, 2026. After Creed took the reins, Umpleby served as govt chairman and a member of the Caterpillar board of administrators, his ultimate place after 29 years with the corporate.
Throughout his time with Caterpillar, Umpleby held quite a few positions together with leader running officer and team president of the corporate’s power and transportation department.
Creed could also be an organization veteran, having spent virtually 30 years years at Caterpillar in a lot of positions of accelerating accountability.
With Creed now main the board, Debra Reed-Klages will proceed to function the board’s lead impartial director. Reed-Klages entered the position of director in 2015 and changed into the board’s impartial presiding director in June 2022.
Thunder Creek Names New Illinois Broker
Truck frame and truck apparatus broker Drake-Scruggs Apparatus has turn into Thunder Creek’s newest broker, serving corporations and contractors all through Illinois and Missouri.
Primarily based in Springfield, Illinois, the dealership will be offering Thunder Creek cell gas and lube trailers, truck upfits and skids from its sole location.
VitalEdge Names New Leader Earnings Officer
Shane MartinVitalEdge
Broker control answers supplier VitalEdge has appointed Shane Martin as its new leader earnings officer. Martin will intention to support the corporate’s talent to spouse with sellers and OEMs via alignment of go-to-market groups.
One in every of his new tasks might be deepening collaboration amongst gross sales, advertising and marketing, buyer good fortune, and spouse groups.
Previous to becoming a member of VitalEdge, Martin maximum just lately served as international head of gross sales within the monetary and company compliance department of establishment knowledge and instrument supplier Wolters Kluwer.
Epiroc Names New Broker for Central U.S.
Heavy apparatus producer Epiroc has added Texas apparatus broker G.W. Van Keppel to its community. This new dealership will quilt Epiroc’s territory in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Missouri.
With 17 places within the U.S., G.W. Van Keppel additionally sells and products and services apparatus from Volvo, Hyundai Development Apparatus, Astec, and BOMAG. As an Epiroc broker, the corporate will serve shoppers within the aggregates, development, and drilling markets.
Tadano Appoints New Executives
Scott WalterTadano
Jap crane producer Tadano has introduced two new executives on board to kick off 2026.
Tadano named Scott Walter as the brand new vp of gross sales on the corporate’s just lately received Manitex crane trade.
Walter brings 30 years of gross sales revel in and twenty years of control revel in to Manitex, having maximum just lately served as vp of strategic accounts within the OEM divison of heavy apparatus public sale corporate Ritchie Bros.
Tadano described Walter’s appointment as an “essential subsequent step” towards integrating its new Manitex trade into the father or mother corporate.
Tyler BrownTadano
Moreover, Tyler Brown used to be named as the corporate’s nationwide trade supervisor for its aerial paintings plat shape trade within the Americas. Brown is charged with increasing improve for its AWP trade in Tadano’s pan-American operations.
Brown brings 25 years of business revel in to the position, having served in control roles at each Genie and JCB within the closing 10 years.
