Mark has 25 years of experience in the trucking industry. During his career at Navistar, he held a number of senior leadership aftermarket roles. He has numerous accomplishments in parts sales, product management, pricing, eCommerce, service, customer support, warranty, and extended service contracts.

Specialties:

• On-highway commercial vehicles

• Bus

• Aftermarket

Rich Ferguson

Richard is a Fortune 50 Business Leader with a unique blend of sales and financial management experience. He has extensive expertise in planning, sales, marketing, corporate finance, continuous improvement as well as product development strategies. C-Suite experience includes Mack & Volvo Trucks, Daimler North America and Orion Bus Industries.

Specialties:

• On-Highway Commercial Vehicles

• Bus

Dave Durand

Dave’s career has spanned more than 40 years. During that time he has worked in parts, service and sales departments with several trailer manufacturers including Trailmobile, Timpte, Wabash and Great Dane; as well as with independent dealers and distributors, factory branches and independent heavy-duty aftermarket parts companies. His roles included sales, operations, and executive level management.

Specialties:

• On-Highway Commercial Trailer

Rick Bergdahl

Rick  has over 40 years of leadership experience in the global truck business with an emphasis on directing product, marketing and pricing teams, primarily with PACCAR, Inc. He has numerous accomplishments in building brands as the company grew from a domestic niche player to a $19B Fortune 500 leading manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty trucks including world-class brands like Kenworth, DAF Trucks, Peterbilt and Leyland Trucks.

Specialties:

• Global Sourcing

• Branding

Robert Peter (“Pete”) Joy is an award-winning senior executive, strategist, and industry leader with over 40 years of experience in the global commercial vehicle and heavy-duty aftermarket sector. His career spans executive leadership roles in multinational manufacturing organizations, strategic consulting engagements, and high-impact industry leadership initiatives across North America and Europe.

Pete served as Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Strategic Advisor at Phillips Industries, where he has played a central role in shaping corporate strategy, global expansion, and leadership development since 2010. He has supported Phillips through key transformations, including international growth initiatives, organizational evolution, and strategic planning for long-term value creation. He also serves as a Member of the Management Board of Phillips Europe / Phillips Poland, where he helped lead the acquisition and development of the company’s European operations.

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Dale Puhrmann

Dale has a broad-base of experience in Customer Service, Technical Training, Warranty Administration, Service Engineering, Technical Information Development, Aftermarket Parts Operations, Product and Business Development, eLearning, Marketing and Sales in an international, multi-channel, on/off highway equipment distribution and support. Dale held Senior Executive positions at PACCAR, Blue Bird Corporation, Link Manufacturing, John Deere and Caterpillar.

Specialties:

• On-Highway Commercial Vehicles

• Bus

• Off-Highway Agriculture Equipment

Charlie WilLmott

Charlie has over 40 years of senior management and board level experience in freight transportation equipment sales, marketing, and planning for both private and public companies. Charlie worked for the Strick organization as president of Strick Lease Intermodal, president of Distribution International the holding company for Strick Lease and Strick Manufacturing and recently Chief Sales Officer for the Strick Trailer Group.

Specialties:

• On-Highway Commercial Trailer

Mark is a marketing, business strategy and sales leader with a customer centric business philosophy with a capable and articulate communicator, an insightful business and product strategist, and an adaptable, flexible yet decisive leader with broad experience and success. Mark‘s experience at Navistar included Product Strategy, Supplier marketing, Heavy Truck Marketing and New Truck Sales.

Specialties:

• On-Highway Commercial Vehicles

Chris Boesel

Chris is a growth-orientated strategic product management professional who is passionate about marketing, business development, complete product and customer account management. A demonstrated leader, problem-solver, and mentor with excellent communication skills with years of experience at Dana, Inc. and Honeywell International. 

Specialties:

• On-Highway Commercial Vehicles

Richard Jilek

Rich is an experienced, customer focused, product support professional serving most years in senior level executive positions for multi-billion dollar global companies including: Clark Equipment, Volvo, and Hitachi. Highly effective, flexible management skills which motivate and stimulate creativity and action. A hands-on leader in the development of warehousing, logistics, marketing and communications programs.

Specialties:

• Off-Highway Construction Equipment

Jack Phelps has over 30 years of experience operating and advising companies on revenue growth, profit improvement, operations, restructuring, valuation, mergers, acquisitions and integration.

Mr. Phelps has broad based experience serving roles as President, CEO, COO, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Operating Partner, and Board Member .

Complementing his broad functional experience is his diversity of industries which include automobile and heavy truck, manufacturing, distribution services, software development, and internet retail.

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