LEADERSHIP TEAM COMPLETE

Just over a year ago, Jochen Schneider took over responsibility for the European, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Pacific region as executive vice president for AriensCo.

Since then, the company says intensive work has been done on the organisational structure of the European AriensCo. With effect from 1 October 2022, the management team around Jochen Schneider is now complete.

"With immediate effect, we are setting out together with AriensCo to be the best partner for our dealers and customers in the core segments of high grass mowing, lawn care and snow clearance in EMEAA as well. I am particularly pleased that we have been able to fill many of the newly created management positions with existing employees from the production sites in England and Germany," said Jochen Schneider.

Maria Lange takes up her new position as vice president RapidCare EMEAA. She is responsible for technical support, order processing, logistics of spare parts and new equipment across all AriensCo product brands. In order to be able to fully concentrate on this comprehensive task, she will hand over her management tasks at the Bühlertann location to EVP Jochen Schneider in the future.   

Darren Spencer remains managing director at the UK site and also takes over responsibility for production at the sites in Germany and England as the vice president of Plants with immediate effect. Darren Spencer has been part of the company for 32 years and has held various management positions at Great Haseley.  

Stephen Kuester has been leading the engineering and product development teams in the UK for the past two years and will continue to lead this area as vice president for engineering and R&D for the entire EMEAA region with immediate effect. The engineer and product designer brings over 25 years of experience from various industrial sectors in leading positions.

The responsibilities of Georg-Otto Fuchs, vice president product management & marketing EMEAA, include the product and brand strategy for the entire region across all product brands as well as the AriensCo Academy. In his new role he will work closely with sales and Brad Stiles, the vice president sales EMEAA. Brad Stiles has been active in this function since May 2022.  

Mark Scavillo was appointed senior vice president finance EMEAA in July this year. He is now also responsible for overseeing the human resources and IT functions within the business. 

Tamara Hauenstein becomes vice president human resources with immediate effect. 

Wolfgang Fiedler is now responsible for the entire IT environment in the EMEAA region as vice president information technology.