Written by
Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Jeff Rasmussen, Director of Sales and Marketing, Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC (MRC) (left); Fred Ange, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, MERMEC, Inc. (middle); Soheil Saadat, Vice President of Business Development and Sales, MERMEC, Inc.
Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC (MRC) has employed Jeff Rasmussen as Director of Sales and Marketing; MERMEC, Inc. has appointed Fred Ange to Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, and Soheil Saadat to Vice President of Business Development and Sales.
At railcar leasing firm MRC, Rasmussen’s gross sales and advertising efforts will deal with territories within the Upper Midwest, Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. He has 30 years of rail expertise, together with 20 in leasing. Rasmussen served most lately as Vice President of Railcar Leasing for CAI Rail, a subsidiary of world transportation firm CAI International, the place he helped improve belongings from $90 million to $500 million in lower than 5 years and labored in a territory protecting 17 states and half of Canada. He has additionally labored for Professional Logistics Group, AllCapital Rail Management, CIT Group, Flex Leasing Corp., and Conrail.
Ange turns into Vice President, CFO and Chief Compliance Officer of MERMEC, Inc., a completely owned subsidiary of MerMec S.p.A. and an Angel Group firm, which gives analytic-driven upkeep options, contracted providers for rail infrastructure monitoring, and rail signaling and practice management methods. This follows his work as Vice President Finance and Control at EMS-Chemie North America. Ange has additionally served as Controller at Mancor SC Inc., a Tier 1 provider to Caterpillar and John Deere companies; and Director of Finance for Whaley Foodservice LLC.
As MERMEC’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales, Saadat might be answerable for defining and executing strategic enterprise growth initiatives, whereas creating new enterprise alternatives and creating personalized options for the corporate’s present and future buyer wants. He served beforehand as Manager of the Digital Products, Measuring & Inspection Solutions Business Unit for Plasser American Corp. In addition, he has held the positions of Head of Digital Products and Measuring Solutions for Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen G.m.b.H.; Director of Track Measuring Systems for ENSCO, Inc.; and Project Manager for CTLGroup; amongst others.
