Under the changes Rick Tousaw has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager and Craig Balfour has been promoted to vice president of sales.

Mr Tousaw joins ARI Canada in 2010 as vice president of operations and most recently served as the vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to joining ARI, Tousaw held key positions with several leading corporations, including Unilever, Ocean Spray and Molson Coors, where he served as area vice president.

In his new role he will have responsibility for all of ARI Canada’s operations, which will include direct oversight of and support for the new North American operational team. He will report to executive vice president of global operations Chris Conroy.

Reporting to Mr Tousaw will be Craig Balfour who now has responsibility for the sales team and all sales-related activities in Canada. Mr Balfour has extensive sales and operations experience, working first with Quaker Oats and then with Molson Coors for a decade in a variety of strategic business roles, including director of customer marketing strategy and revenue and vice president of logistics. He joined ARI Canada in December 2012 as the director of sales development.

‘We’re incredibly pleased to have Rick and Craig stepping into these new roles,’ said Chris Conroy. ‘I think both have already demonstrated that they will bring exceptional expertise and an experienced perspective to bear on behalf of ARI Canada and I am looking forward to working with them and continuing to deliver unique, customised fleet solutions to all of our customers.’

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