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Tennant Company Appoints Fay West as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
April 1, 2021 GMT
MINNEAPOLIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 1, 2021
Tennant Company (“Tennant”) (NYSE: TNC), a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of solutions that help create a cleaner, safer, healthier world, today announced it has appointed Fay West as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective April 15. Ms. West was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SunCoke Energy, Inc. West replaces Thomas Paulson, who has served as interim CFO since January 2021.
Operator
Good morning. My name is Kensey, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Tennant Company s 2020 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
Thank you for participating in Tennant Company s 2020 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings Conference Call. Beginning today s meeting is Mr. William Prate, Senior Director of Global Financial Planning and Analysis and Investor Relations for Tennant Company. Mr. Prate, you may begin.
William Prate
Senior Director, Investor Relations
Thank you, Kensey. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Tennant Company s fourth quarter 2020 earnings conference call. I m William Prate, Senior Director of Global Financial Planning and Analysis and Investor Relations. Joining me today are Chris Killingstad, Tennant s President and CEO; Tom Paulson, our Interim CFO; and Dave Huml, our Chief Operating Officer.
Three Minnesota public companies choose internal candidates to take the leadership reins from veteran CEOs.
Chris Killingstad, who led Tennant Co. to $1.14 billion in sales in 2019, will leave his president and CEO role in March.
Killingstad, who served in the top job for 15 years, will be succeeded by Dave Huml, the company’s chief operating officer. Tennant, founded in 1870, is well-known for manufacturing blue-and-gray cleaning machines that are used in countless school and business locations.
Killingstad is the third chief executive in the past two months to announce a departure from a major public company based in the Twin Cities. Doug Baker will leave his CEO role at Ecolab on Jan. 1, and Vicki Holt will end her tenure as president and CEO of Protolabs on March 1.
CEO of Eden Prairie-based Tennant Co. retiring after 15 years Chris Killingstad will be succeeded by Dave Huml.
By Patrick Kennedy Star Tribune December 15, 2020 7:20pm Text size Copy shortlink:
He will be succeeded by Dave Huml, the Eden Prairie-based manufacturing company s chief operating officer. Dave Huml s promotion to CEO is a natural progression that reflects his successful leadership at Tennant, including his role as a major architect of the company s current enterprise strategy, said lead director Steven Sonnenberg in a news release.
Killingstad will remain with Tennant as a strategic adviser until the end of next year. With his leadership, Chris helped transform Tennant into th
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