MANAGEMENT PROFILES

Tim Ryan
President and CEO
Mr. Ryan incorporated Rhino Rubber LLC in September 2008. A manufacturing and distribution company, Rhino Rubber has brought a complete line of solid industrial tires and wheels to the US market serving the material handling industry. The company is also visible in Europe under the name Euromex Tyre.

Mr. Ryan served as President of Thule Trailers, Winslow, ME, an international manufacturer of aluminum and galvanized sport utility and cargo trailers targeting the US market, from June 2005 until July 2008. He was recruited by Thule, a Swedish company, to implement a national sales and distribution strategy for enclosed aluminum trailers along with introducing an innovative Thule European-designed galvanized trailer program. In that position he developed multi-location distribution and manufacturing capacity in the US market, as well as a multi-channel sales distribution initiative ranging from independent trailer dealers to national retailers such as ACE hardware, Balkamp/NAPA, Cabela’s, and U-Haul. He was also responsible for implementing extensive restructuring and business alignment initiatives within the US to introduce new trailer concepts and solutions consistent with trends driven by the automotive industry.

From June 1991 to Feb. 2005, Mr. Ryan worker for Trelleborg Wheel Systems Americas, Hartville, OH, as President. Trelleborg is an international company dealing in ISO certified industrial tires serving the global material handling industry with proprietary products. In that position, Mr. Ryan reported directly to the Business Unit President in Europe and was responsible for leading the Global Matrix Organization of 6 executives and 1800 employees in US, 8 executives and 700 employees in Sir Lanka, and 5 executive and 225 employees in Belgium.

Prior to that position, from 1986 to 1991, Mr. Ryan served as General Manager of Industrial Tires Division (formally Teledyne Monarch Rubber) where he managed the industrial tire division of Teledyne Monarch Rubber with full P&L responsibility. Mr. Ryan worked in various product support, sales representative, and regional and national sales management positions from 1979 to 1986. Mr. Ryan completed three years of study in Business Administration at the University of Texas, Austin, TX (1969-1972), a Dale Carnegie Institute program (1981), and the Trelleborg Intercultural Management Program at Lund University, Lund, Sweden (1998). Mr. Ryan served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967 through 1973.