17.08.2018

New head for Rami Sweden & Denmark

Ramirent has appointed Erik Bengtsson as executive vice president, Sweden & Denmark and group fleet and sourcing.

He joined the Ramirent board of directors in March last year, having resigned as executive vice president of Cramo Scandinavia and managing director of Cramo Sweden in April 2015 See Erik Bengtsson quits Cramo Since then he has held a number of roles, including a year with a web start up business Biduin, a year as chief executive of ceramic tile sales company Centro, before founding a cloud based ‘pricing engine’ Pricise. He will step down from the Ramirent board at the end of this month, in order to take up his new executive role. There has been no mention of a replacement for him on the board, which will now have six members.
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Erik Bengtsson

He replaces Jonas Söderkvist who moves to the new role of executive vice president, group business development, with responsibility for group strategy, mergers & acquisitions, new business development, IT and digitalisation.
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Jonas Söderkvist

Dino Leistenschneider who currently heads the group fleet & sourcing function will now report to Bengtsson.

Chief executive Tapio Kolunsarka said: "After orchestrating an impressive turnaround in our Swedish business and also in Denmark, we welcome Jonas to develop the future of Ramirent and the whole industry. We also warmly welcome Erik into operative role within Ramirent. He brings a wealth of rental competence into Ramirent while being also an excellent people leader and customer advocate.”