{"id":7642,"date":"2020-03-24T04:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:11:31","slug":"the-crosby-group-names-general-manager-load-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/the-crosby-group-names-general-manager-load-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crosby Group Names General Manager, Load Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Crosby Group<\/a> has appointed Thomas Dietvorst general manager, load monitoring, as David Ayling, the former owner of the Straightpoint (SP)<\/a> company steps into a consultancy role.<\/p>\n

Dietvorst will take the reins at SP\u2019s manufacturing facility and headquarters, co-located in Hampshire, UK that became Crosby<\/a>\u2019s centre of excellence for load monitoring and measurement following the January 2019 acquisition. He will report to Jason Colwell, managing director, EMEA at Crosby<\/a>. Ayling, meanwhile, will transition from his temporary role as global business development director for load monitoring solutions to long-term consultant.<\/p>\n

Dietvorst said: \u201cThere is no replacing someone who has lived the company for 20 years. I\u2019m not trying to be the new Mr. Loadlink [Ayling\u2019s blogging pseudonym]. The new leadership role is suited to my skillset, not David\u2019s; we\u2019re different, but very similar. I wouldn\u2019t be equipped to do what he does and vice versa. Our priority is to retain SP<\/a>\u2019s \u2018secret sauce\u2019, which is based on being agile, mobile and customer orientated. We\u2019re looking at adding even more data and processes to the operation; there\u2019s always room for improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thomas Dietvorst (left), 30, was previously strategic marketing manager at Crosby, based in Belgium, having joined the company two years ago as product manager.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dietvorst, 30, was previously strategic marketing manager at Crosby<\/a>, based in Belgium, having joined the company two years ago as product manager. Suitably, there has been a constant product centricity to his career, having overseen the launch of an 85-plus tonne shackle range and many other research and development programmes. Additionally, he has led on marketing and training projects.<\/p>\n

Dietvorst, a Belgian, will relocate to the Havant area near SP<\/a>\u2019s facility, with travel and commitments at Crosby<\/a> Europe in Heist-op-den-Berg in his home country making up the remainder of his time. He has a Masters in Science in Product Development (MSc) from the University of Antwerp, and a Masters in General Management (MBA) from the Vlerick Business School.<\/p>\n

Ayling said: \u201cAs I wrote in my final blog, an MBA without the DNA is useless, but Dietvorst brings the latter in spades. We couldn\u2019t have found someone more suited to the role. Thomas can take the company in a direction that I wouldn\u2019t have been able to as the owner of two decades. He sees things from an exciting, fresh perspective, which is great news for staff, distributors, end users and the entire SP<\/a> community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dietvorst acknowledged that there are challenges to face, and the early throes of leadership have been, and will continue to be, impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. He said: \u201cWe are keeping in regular contact with our customers. Our vertically integrated manufacturing structure will enable us to limit negative impact on supply chains.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more planned steps were to make sure the whole team is comfortable. The captain has left and a new\u2014let\u2019s be honest\u2014young guy has taken over. Importantly, David will be here in a supporting role so it\u2019s not a case of \u2018goodbye, you\u2019re on your own\u2019. The fact that he\u2019s only seconds away on the end of the phone will be invaluable going forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWhile we are constantly looking for ways to improve, I don\u2019t see any major recruitment or restructuring in the immediate future. I have to become accustomed to leading a larger group in the SP<\/a> team but that\u2019s a challenge I relish. I also need to adapt to a more electrical and digital world than the mechanical nature of Crosby<\/a> products, while the respective customer bases are different in that both serve rigging shops but there is the weighing systems side to SP<\/a> too. Of course, I need to learn and respect the differences between Belgian and English cultures as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Away from the workplace, Dietvorst is a self-confessed tinker-man; he enjoys building and enhancing sailing boats (Havant is on England\u2019s southern coastline) and has a farmhouse at home that serves as an ongoing renovation and construction project. With a well-travelled father who spent years in the Middle East and Australia, Dietvorst considers himself an international citizen.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Dietvorst (left), general manager, load monitoring and former Straightpoint owner David Ayling outside the company\u2019s Hampshire, UK facility.<\/p><\/div>\n

He added: \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have arrived at this point via such smooth transition if it wasn\u2019t for David\u2019s vision, guidance and support over recent weeks. He is an impossible act to follow and only with continued access to his unrivalled insight can we be successful in the immediate and longer term. I owe him a great deal of gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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