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SEARCHThe third annual class of fleet visionaries were honored at the 2018 Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA) annual conference in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 2.
Nancy Murray of Agfa Corporation was named Fleet Visionary of the Year. Mike Antich of Automotive Fleet presented the award at the AFLA Conference award ceremony.
Photo courtesy of AFLA.
The third annual class of fleet visionaries were honored at the 2018 Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA) annual conference in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 2.
A total of 20 fleet professionals were honored at an awards ceremony during the conference. Of the 20, Nancy Murray, senior manager of general services and travel, Agfa Corporation, was named Fleet Visionary of the Year.
The Fleet Visionary award is open to any fleet professional with 10 years or fewer in the industry who has brought a new perspective to running a commercial fleet with the result that the fleet is more operationally efficient, cost-effective, safer, or any combination of these by introducing new methods, efficiencies, and/or technologies.
The award, sponsored by Merchants Fleet Management, is designed to recognize and celebrate new voices in fleet management. The honorees were announced by associates from Merchants.
The 20 fleet visionaries for 2018 are:
Nancy Murray - Agfa Corporation
Sarah Bechtold - Ecolab
Samantha Johnson – AbbVie
Daniel Cannon - Schindler Elevator Corp.
Jim Curcio - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chad Edmondson - Ferguson Enterprises
Raymond Jozwiak - Cunningham Lindsey
Karla Guajardo - Honeywell
Milver Ramirez-Sweet - DPR Construction
Mike Dunlap - Booster Fuels
Sean Maczko - ACRT Pacific
Matthew Weisensel - Saulsbury Industries
Joelle Larente – Bath Fitter
Ted Chan – ABM Industries
Philip Orosco – LKQ Corp.
Mario Moses – Bayer
Daniel Lopez - Kraft Heinz Company
Josh Light - Xcel Energy
Richard Callis – PepsiCo
Paulette Gates – American Red Cross
A detailed look at the fleet visionaries will be featured in an upcoming issue of Automotive Fleet.
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