Blackwell has served intermittently on the board since the early 1980s and takes over for outgoing Chair Larry Little, who remains an active elected board member after having served as chair for the last 10 years. For 2013, Blackwell joins the other officers: newly elected Vice Chair Jon-Erik Burleson as...
Pieter de Waal comes to Zero with more than 30 years of business, engineering and sales experience in both the automotive and motorcycle industries. This includes stints with Nissan, Delta (GM), Mercedes-Benz and, more recently, at BMW Motorrad as North American vice president.
Gary Latimer, owner of Race Tools in Brockport, N.Y., joins the company as race coordinator. He will support sponsored riders and cultivate new riders to the company. Dan Leale has been appointed as marketing coordinator, assisting with product reviews, press releases and Web updates.
Longtime motorcycle industry sales and marketing exec Steve Veltri has signed on as director of sales for Mustang Motorcycle Products after a brief stint in the wholesale irrigation business. V-Twin dealers will recognize Veltri from his time as the VP of sales & marketing for Custom Chrome for more than...
Longtime motorsports journalist Henny Ray Abrams has covered nearly every form of motorcycle racing since the 1970s.
Five individuals will join the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame, and one individual is recognized through an induction into the Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame. The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame is designed to recognize individuals or groups who have made a long-term impact on the motorcycle community,...
Jeremy Genter has worked as a powersports sales rep in the New York area for the last several years.
Tad Kilgore, creator of the popular Traffic Log Pro CRM, has joined More Than Rewards as contact center director. The new service, Contact Central, will offer dealers pre- and post-sales customer follow-up by phone, expert dealer mentoring, and a free, integrated CRM solution through FreePowersportCRM.com.
Maggie McNally was unanimously elected chair of the AMA Board of Directors at its meeting in Indianapolis on Feb. 16. She was elected vice chair in December 2011 and has been a member of the board since 2009, representing individual AMA members in the Northeast region. With her election, she...
Ariel Krawczyk joins the company as special events coordinator, and Glen West will take on the role of internal dealer development representative.
McGrath will be on-hand at Bel-Ray's booth, No. 425, to sign autographs and take photos with fans on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m.
Ed Jones, who spent the past six years working in the TPMS market, has been appointed to the newly created position. He has 17 years in the repair industry and is regarded as one of the leading TPMS trainers nationwide and is a Tire Industry Association (TIA) Automotive Tire Service...
Dave Segler brings a wealth of industry experience with him, having spent 26 years with Lemans Corporation/Parts Unlimited. He started there as a sales rep, and spent the past 12 years managing the Parts Unlimited outbound phone sales office in Brainerd, Minn.
Joe Parr, previously of Western Power Sports and Ansai Sportswear, will serve as outside sales and field training manager. Zane Steele, formerly of Del Amo Motorsports and Long Beach Motorsports, will serve as apparel market sales analyst. Tenured sales executive Eli Whitney will serve as consumer and events manager.
Etcell began his career with an East London motorcycle dealer before joining Honda UK, where he spent 10 years with the company. After leaving Honda, he went on to found his own retail motorcycle business in north London, holding franchises for Honda, Ducati and Triumph before moving into communications, marketing...
Two-day workshops will focus on F&I, service management, parts department management and sales management. Events will take place in Denver, Colo., starting Feb. 4.
