Motul USA Announces Organizational Changes

Dave Wolman, President of Motul USA since 2001 has accepted to join Motul’s Center of Excellence (CoE) for powersports as Director for the AMERICAS region. His new international mission will be in direct continuity with his previous achievements, promoting Motul in the powersports markets in North and South America.

“I am excited to join the Center of Excellence team, which already has a strong track record in the Group. This new division, located in California, represents a huge opportunity for the promotion of our PowerSports activities. We will be working with and supporting the hundreds of Motul distributors, racers, riders and fans from the top of Canada to the bottom of Chile.”

In accepting the CoE position, Wolman has turned over the operations for Motul USA to Guillaume Pailleret, who has assumed the Presidency.
Pailleret comes to Motul USA from our Motul Americas region headquarters based in Brazil where he was Vice President for Latin America. Pailleret has decades of experience in leading corporate subsidiaries across South and North America. Pailleret is a graduate of the ESSEC Group in France and holds an MBA from ESCP-EAP in Paris.

“Motul has a distinctive approach to the automotive and powersports lube markets worldwide ; I am proud to join the team. Our U.S. and Canadian trade partners and consumers are at the cornerstone of the Motul group priority; we look forward to bringing exciting and ingenious new solutions to our customers in the region.”

The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame recently named Marilyn Stemp and Steve Piehl to its board of directors.

Stemp is a pioneering figure in the motorcycle industry, founding IronWorks Magazine with her late husband, Dennis, and becoming the first female editor of a nationally circulated, mainstream motorcycle magazine. She also revived their trade magazine, Iron Trader News; edits the monthly Kiwi Indian News; contributes to several powersports media outlets; and is the founding editor of Sturgis Rider Daily. Stemp is a noted editor and writer of several motorcycle-focused books. Her consistent support for charitable efforts in the industry include the annual Biker Belles Celebration, Las Vegas BikeFest and as campaign chair for the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum’s development plan in 2014. She co-founded the Flying Piston charity events taking place in Daytona and Sturgis each year and is a National Ambassador for All Kids Bike. Stemp was inducted into both the Las Vegas Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Sturgis Museum's Hall of Fame in 2018, and in 2022 she was recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in Powersports by DealerNews.