Baroness USA recently filled six positions in sales, training and customer service that bring to the company more than 160 years of combined experience.
The company's new hires are:
- Tyler Dickey, director of sales
- Brian Nash, technical manager
- Nathan Cobb, training manager/operational support
- Darren Modin, territory sales manager
- Aaron Morrison, territory sales manager
- Bill Corcoran, territory sales manager
Baroness USA is a manufacturer and distributor of mowing equipment for use on fine cut turf. Its portfolio includes mowers for use on greens and tees, fairways, approaches and surrounds, and roughs on golf courses as well as specialty mowers for use on athletic fields. Baroness also makes a line of golf course bunker rakes.
Dickey has more than 30 years of experience in the golf industry. Prior to joining Baroness he spent time in sales with Ventrac Schiller Grounds Care, C&M Golf and Grounds and Colorado Golf and Turf.
During the past 20 years, Nash has held positions with Smithco, Jacobsen, Textron Specialized Vehicles and Golf Ventures West.
Cobb joins Baroness from Turf and Soil Management, where he was a business test analyst.
Modin, who joins Baroness after six years in sales for Ventrac, will be responsible for sales initiatives in the Upper Midwest as well as Canada and Mexico. Morrison previously held sales management positions with Harper Industries, Ventral and Stotz Equipment. He will oversee sales in the Western U.S. Corcoran will cover the Eastern U.S. He brings more than 30 years of sales experience from posts at Ventrac, Lawn and Golf Supply Co., Turf Equipment and Supply Co. and Philadelphia Turf Co.
In other news, Mich Otani was promoted from his previous role as director of U.S. operations for Kyoeisha USA (dba Baroness USA) to director of overseas sales at Kyoeisha, Japan.