“I was offered a role to join a company and industry focused on significant growth,” Frane says. “The oil, gas and mining markets are attractive to me and I’m looking forward to joining the management team at Halco to help them develop opportunities.”

Frane’s areas of specialization as regional sales manager include market sales growth and market penetration. He is tasked with overseeing business development in Central America and South America.

“Shad brings with him 11 years of industrial sales development experience and we are extremely pleased he has chosen to join our growing sales team,” says Marc Thompson, group commercial manager.

Halco Rock Tools is a manufacturer of down-the-hole (DTH) drilling equipment that pioneered the development of DTH hammers in the1950s.  Their range of hammers and drills bits offers optimum drilling performance in construction, civil engineering, geothermal, water well, mining, quarrying, oil and gas, and exploration industries. To learn more, visit www.halcorocktools.com.