On April 1, 2008 Roy Strand was promoted to Vice President of Goltens Americas. In this new role, Roy will have full profit & loss responsibility for Goltens’ four business units in North America: Goltens New York, Goltens Miami Service, Goltens Miami Trading and Goltens California.


Since joining Goltens in August of 2006, Roy has concentrated most of his efforts on reorganising and stabilising the cost and management structures at Goltens California (GMC). Additionally he identified, quantified and penetrated new marine and industrial markets with the result being increased market share for GMC. The results of his efforts with the dedicated and long-tenured management team at GMC are increased customer satisfaction and improved sales and operating results. Strand has also identified and targeted new marine and industrial markets for the other three Goltens business units in the US. He has achieved measurable success in these initiatives and maintains a high degree of confidence and optimism that he and the experienced and seasoned management teams in New York and Miami will bring increased growth and profitability to these business units as well. In this capacity, Strand will report to Paul Friedberg, the Goltens Worldwide (GWW) President of Services in Dubai and Mark Rutkowski, GWW Chief Financial Officer in New Jersey. “We congratulate Roy on his promotion and well-deserved appointment and wish him continued success and all the best in developing Goltens in the Americas” says Friedberg."