Meet our Contributors
Eric Yeomans
Product Manager, Wheel Loaders
Product manager, wheel loaders | Eric has spent more than 40 years with Volvo, dating back to 1977 where he began his career at a Volvo CE dealership. He has worked in a variety of roles within Volvo, as well as Volvo dealers —including customer support management, telematics management and product management positions. Today, as product manager for wheel loaders in North America, works with the regional product requirements Volvo’s district teams, dealers, representing the regional requests by providing product training, support and design input.
Matt McLean
Product Manager, Excavators
Dr. Ray Gallant
Vice president sales support, region Americas
Ray is responsible for Volvo’s vision in the region on future product development and technologies, customer center operations, and sales and operator training programs. He’s also in charge of Volvo’s demonstration program and any other required sales support activities in the Americas. Prior to his current position, Ray was a director of product planning. He has over 25 years of experience in product development, product planning and sales and marketing with a variety of equipment products. Ray believes we are on the cusp of exciting emerging technologies that will transform the construction industry and open up tremendous opportunities in efficiency, productivity, safety and operator comfort.
Tyler Smith
Operator Training Specialist
Tyler is a heavy construction and mining equipment product specialist with more than 10 years of experience in the heavy equipment industry. He specializes in operator training and product support. Tyler has been with Volvo CE for more than 3 years and has spent those years serving as an operator training specialist. Prior to joining Volvo, Tyler worked as a field service technician at Highway Equipment & Supply Co. in Harrisburg, Pa.
Chris Connolly
Product Manager, Wheel Loaders
Chris has spent eight years with Volvo, dating back to 2012 where he began his career as the paving training specialist for Volvo’s Road Institute. Today, as product manager for wheel loaders in North America, Chris works with internal Volvo teams and dealers providing product training, support and design input.
Hilton Wood
Product Manager, Repair Solutions
Hilton began his career with Volvo CE in 2008 as an intern, and in 2012 became a full-time employee as a senior telematics specialist working on programs like CareTrack® and ActiveCare® Direct. In 2016, he assumed his current role of Product Manager – Repair Solutions and covers sales and marketing for Volvo Certified New Life, Volvo Reman, Care Inspections and component rebuilds.
Mark Eckert
Product Manager, Compaction
Mark is the current compaction product manager and has over 22 years of experience in the construction equipment industry with knowledge of applications such as asphalt pavers, asphalt and soil compactors, milling machines, material handling equipment and aerial work platforms. Mark is also a trainer on best practices for construction equipment and material handling applications.
Danny Freeman
Sales Training and Product Support Manager
Before working for Volvo, Danny began his career within his family construction business. Currently, he’s a sales training and product support manager with 38 years of construction and demolition experience — he’s spent 28 of these years with Volvo.
Lars Arnold
Product Manager, Electromobility
Lars has an engineering background and has been with Volvo since 2002. He has worked in multiple positions in various countries and is now based in Shippensburg as the electromobility product manager for North America in charge of product specifications and required features for the North American market.