Our Board

Gérard Deprez

…was elected President of ERA in June 2006.

Gérard Deprez is CEO of LOXAM since 1986 and has an MBA in Business and a BA Honours in Law.

Prior to joining LOXAM he was regional manager at Socimat and Deputy Financial Controller at Ciments Dorigny.

Isabelle Ameloot

…is managing director of Huurland – Euro Rent Flandres NV since 1999.

In 1996 she successfully created and built up the employment Agency Ago Interim.

Ms Ameloot has a degree in translation and interpretation (French - Spanish) from the University of Ghent. She also studied at the University of Sevilla.

Kevin Appleton

…was appointed Chief Executive of Lavendon Group January 2002. He has spent most of his senior management career within the international logistics industry.

His early career was spent in Exel Logistics in a variety of sales and operational roles, before becoming European Vice President of FedEx (formerly Caliber) Logistics from 1993 to 2000, based in the US and the Netherlands. Most recently he was the Managing Director for the European company of Dexion Group Limited.

Franco de Michelis

…was appointed General Director of Assodimi, the Italian association for distributors and rental companies, in 1992.

Before working at Assodimi Mr. de Michelis worked as area & regional manager and managing & commercial director for the FIAT earthmoving division in Italy, France and Africa as managing director. 

Erkki Norvio

…is member of the Board of Directors of Ramirent plc since 1986, and he was the President and CEO of Ramirent Plc in 1986 - 2005 and Vice President 1984 - 1986. The group now has 288 permanent outlets in 12 countries and its based in Helsinki. 

Before joining Ramirent, Mr. Norvio worked in Oy Partek Ab and held positions as production manager of Partek’s concrete factories, head of ready-mix concrete department, production line manager of Partek’s prefabricated element factories and deputy manager of cover material industry.

Peter Schrader

…is Managing Director of MVS Verwaltungs GmbH since 2004.  

Between 1991 and 2004 he was manager at several divisions of the Zeppelin Group.  Prior to joining Zeppelin he was chair of the technical security and protection of labour at the Bergakademie of Freiberg.

Colin Wood

…has been in the construction equipment rental industry since 1966 and has primarily worked for mobile crane rental companies. He has been a Main Board Director of major crane rental companies from 1980 until 2001, when he took over as Chief Executive of the CPA. The CPA, with 1455 members is the largest construction equipment association in Europe, and covers all types of equipment from tool hire, excavators, general plant, mobile concrete pumps, access platforms, mobile cranes, tower cranes, construction hoists etc. The CPA Rental Conditions are generally regarded as the Industry Standard in the United Kingdom.