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New Volvo CE business director for Oceania

James Kennedy has been appointed Business Director for Volvo Construction Equipment in Oceania. He will be based in Perth, Western Australia. Source: Timberbiz

Together with Volvo CE’s distribution partners CJD, Transdiesel and Cipac he will be responsible for driving and developing Volvo’s construction equipment business in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.

James Kennedy’s last role was as a general manager with Clark Equipment Sales in Australia. There he was most recently responsible for the equipment distributor’s Western region operations based in Perth, and previously for the Southern region, from Melbourne.

He started his career with Ingersoll-Rand in the US, working in sales and marketing roles in the Northeastern United States.

After that he served as Marketing Manager for Bobcat Company in the Asia-Pacific region.