Stertil-Koni USA announces that the company’s Operations Manager, Paul Marks, has retired after 21-years of outstanding performance. Marks is succeeded by Doug Frakes who joined Stertil-Koni following ten years of top experience with FedEx Ground.
During Marks’s tenure at Stertil-Koni, he played a significant role in helping the company grow more than 50-fold to become the leader in the heavy-duty vehicle lift industry across North America. A retired U.S. Air Force officer with 26 years of service, Marks joined Stertil-Koni in 1998 as one of the company’s first employees. At the time, Stertil-Koni operated out of a small, one-room office in Ellicott City, MD with only two employees – its President, Dr. Jean DellAmore, and Marks.
Two decades later, much has changed. Tractor trailers delivering Stertil-Koni lifts to distributors and customer locations now crisscross the landscape on a daily basis and the company has come to dominate the heavy-duty vehicle lifting sector in terms of innovation, sales and customer care.
Marks, as operations manager, played a substantial role in this development, having overseen Stertil-Koni’s key operations and logistics associated with the delivery, receipt and shipping of the company’s heavy-duty vehicle lifting systems and shop equipment. By conservative estimates, Marks ordered, sent, tracked, delivered, and invoiced more than 10,000 items during his two-decade career with Stertil-Koni.
In making today’s announcement, Dr. Jean DellAmore, president of Stertil-Koni USA, noted, “Paul has been a key driver in our ongoing success and has worn many hats along the way. He has an exceptionally strong work ethic, with superb attention to detail, a command of complex logistics operations, and an intense commitment to serving Stertil-Koni and our customer base. We are a better company today thanks to Paul Marks.”