30.03.2020

New crane manager for Liebherr USA

Liebherr has appointed Pierre Bilgeri,31, as mobile and crawler crane manager for the USA. He takes over from Daniel Pitzer, 39, who has been promoted to chief financial officer for Liebherr Ehingen. Bilgeri already has worked with Liebherr USA for a number of year, mostly in sales roles. For the past eight years he has been sales manager for Liebherr Nenzing crawler cranes – up to 300 tonnes -and other products across the USA, Canada and South East Europe.
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Daniel Pitzer (L) with Pierre Bilgeri

Pitzer was appointed as managing director of Liebherr USA in 2015 and retained responsibility for mobile and crawler crane sales. In that time the USA has grown into Liebherr’s most important export market.

Liebherr Ehingen managing director sales Christoph Kleiner said: “We have found a very good successor for Daniel Pitzer in the form of Pierre Bilgeri. He knows the business, and he has been a familiar face with Liebherr for many years. The very important service structure throughout the USA and the expansion of the LRT sales model are absolutely important to our business model this is where Pierre Bilgeri’s long years of experience in the USA market will pay dividends. I am delighted to have the perfect opportunity at the Conexpo to be able to introduce Pierre Bilgeri in person to many of our long standing customers.”

Bilgeri added: “The team has been working for many years on the best solutions for the different requirements in the USA. I’m looking forward to be part of this great and well experienced team”,

Pitzer said: “I am truly thankful for the last five years here in the United States and for the trust our customers have put in us. I would also like to thank my team here in the US for the great teamwork as well as all the efforts over the past years. And I wish my successor, Pierre, all the best for his new position as I’m sure he will do a great job here”.