AEM Appoints New Director of Statistics and Market Information

September 22, 2006 • AEM has named Rex Sprietsma as director of statistics and market information to oversee the association's domestic and worldwide equipment market data reporting programs.

 

AEM statistical programs cover more than 200 product lines and provide benchmarking and forecasting information at the county, state, national, and international levels. The association is also developing in-country statistics programs, starting with China, to provide more in-depth data to program participants.
 

Sprietsma is an experienced equipment manufacturing industry executive. Prior to joining AEM, he worked at WestfaliaSurge for 27 years in a variety of market research and analysis posts, most recently as the company's manager of electronic marketing and market analysis. Sprietsma actively participated in AEM statistical committees, serving as a statistics steering committee member and chairman of the association's dairy farm products statistics committee.

 

He received a bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Illinois in Chicago, with a concentration in marketing and strategic management.