TULSA,
Okla., Nov. 6, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- AAON, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAON) ("AAON" or the
"Company"), today announced that its Board of Directors has
appointed Matt Tobolski to the role
of AAON President and Chief Operating Officer. Gary Fields, the Company's President, CEO and
Director, will continue to serve as CEO and a member of the Board
of Directors.
Matt joined AAON in December
2021 following the acquisition of BASX, where he currently
serves as President and Co-Founder. Matt brings a wealth of
leadership experience driving sustainable growth in engineering and
manufacturing organizations with a focus on delivering solutions
that provide long-term value.
In this new role, Matt will lead AAON's operations, engineering,
sales, marketing, and administration teams overseeing approximately
3,800 employees across the organization. He will continue to build
upon AAON's decades of innovation, manufacturing prowess and
customer-focused mindset while leveraging the talents and
manufacturing capacity that exist across the entire AAON
organization.
Additional alignment of the executive leadership team will occur
to leverage resources and organizational efficiencies with globally
focused roles and collaborative site leadership. Dave Benson is appointed AAON Vice
President and President of BASX, where he currently serves as
Co-Founder and Chairman. Dave will take over Matt's
responsibilities at BASX and provide site leadership in
Redmond, Oregon.
Stephen Wakefield will assume the role of AAON Vice President
and Executive Vice President of AAON Oklahoma continuing with many
of the same job responsibilities and providing site leadership for
the Oklahoma and Missouri locations. Doug Wichman will
continue in his role as AAON Vice President and President of AAON
Coil Products providing site leadership for the Texas facility.
Alignment and addition of globally focused roles will occur to
leverage the skills and talents across the organization and
continue to drive our One AAON culture. Rob Teis
is changing roles to Vice President of Business Technology to
provide critical leadership as AAON continues evolving systems and
processes across the organization. Previously, Rob was Vice
President of Sales and Marketing. Andrew Edmondson will be
promoted to AAON Executive Director of Sales and Marketing, taking
over most of Rob's prior duties. Larry Honel will be promoted
to Executive Director of Global Operations and Whitney Wakefield will be promoted to Executive
Director of Production Controls. All changes in this announcement
are effective January 1, 2024.
Gary Fields, CEO, congratulates
everyone and notes "Teamwork and collaboration are the heartbeat of
great companies and we must continue to focus on these principles
in the ongoing effort to improve how we do business and operate on
a daily basis. These leadership transitions are a significant and
exciting step forward, aligning our leaders to best support our
operations and to lead us to long-term sustainability. The
alignment of Company leadership is critical to managing and
adapting AAON's fast-evolving business. We must stay
competitive, innovate and respond to future market demands. We are
committed to ensuring all aspects of the business are harmonized
and working cohesively towards a bright future for everyone and I
strongly believe these leadership appointments will position the
Company to continue delivering on these objectives."
About AAON
Founded in 1988, AAON is a world leader in
HVAC solutions for commercial and industrial indoor environments.
The Company's industry-leading approach to designing and
manufacturing highly configurable equipment to meet exact needs
creates a premier ownership experience with greater efficiency,
performance and long-term value. AAON is headquartered in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, where its
world-class innovation center and testing lab allows AAON engineers
to continuously push boundaries and advance the industry. For more
information, please visit www.AAON.com.
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We undertake no obligations to update publicly any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise. Important factors that could cause results to differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements include (1)
the timing and extent of changes in raw material and component
prices, (2) the effects of fluctuations in the
commercial/industrial new construction market, (3) the timing and
extent of changes in interest rates, as well as other competitive
factors during the year, and (4) general economic, market or
business conditions.
Contact Information
Joseph
Mondillo
Director of Investor Relations
Phone (617) 877-6346
Email: joseph.mondillo@aaon.com
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