Dan Olson promoted to Vice President of Construction Equipment

 


 

Road Machinery & Supplies Co. has announced that Dan Olson has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Construction Equipment Sales. Olson was previously the Sales Manager, Savage, and he replaces the position held by Ben Schmidtlein, who served as Vice President of Sales. Olson’s slight but meaningful title change for this role underscores RMS’ commitment to driving greater focus on all of its construction equipment business. In this new capacity, he will report directly to President Russell Sheaffer.   

 

Olson has spent his entire career in sales, first as a sales representative and later growing into various sales leadership roles including two at RMS. 

 

“Since joining the company Dan has demonstrated a strong understanding of our market and has exemplified outstanding leadership and customer relationship skills,” said Sheaffer.

 

Effective immediately, Olson will be responsible for managing the construction sales activities of Service Managers Brad Carlson for northern Minnesota and Luther Braun in Iowa, and the supporting functions provided by New Equipment Manager Matt Sill and Smart Construction & Paving Solutions Manager Chris Potter.

 

Road Machinery & Supplies Co is in the process of identifying Dan’s backfill as quickly as possible. This will allow him to focus his efforts on more strategic and less transactional work, at which time he’ll assume responsibilities for additional sales-related functions. 

 

 

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