06.04.2022

Link-Belt adds to sales team

Link-Belt cranes has appointed Kevin Hague as district manager of the north eastern United States and eastern Canada, while J. P. Kolb will cover Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Hague joins the company following a short spell as national equipment sales & business development partner with ML Crane Group in Colorado. He began his career in 1987 with rental sales operation Center Rental , moving to crane and aerial lift distributor Honnen Equipment as a regional crane sales manager. Two years later he joined Liebherr as regional sales manager for the Pacific North West for mobile cranes and crawlers. After five years with the company, he was promoted to national account manager. In late 2017 he joined heavy lift company Lampson International as a sales executive. The following year he moved to Terex/Demag as a regional business manager for Demag cranes, staying on after the Tadano acquisition. In 2021 he moved to ML Crane. As part of his move to Link-Belt he will relocate from Colorado to Virginia.
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Kevin Hague

Sales manager, Gary Lane said: “Kevin’s extensive crane experience uniquely qualifies him to support our north eastern and eastern Canadian crane customers in a very positive way. We are expecting great things from Kevin as an addition to the Link-Belt team.”
Kolb joins Link-Belt from Konecranes where he was southern regional manager, prior to that he worked as a national account specialist with crane and access rental company Maxim Crane having joined the business when it acquired Essex crane’s assets in 2016 where he had worked since 2005. Prior that he spent 10 years selling oil field equipment to production, pipeline and drilling companies throughout the Gulf Coast area. He is based in Louisiana.
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J. P. Kolb

“J.P. has built some lasting relationships in our industry and in the area he will be serving. We believe he will be a great addition to our team and provide excellent distributor support in a critical territory,” said Lane.