{"id":4508,"date":"2019-12-18T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coxmarine.com\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T11:22:34","slug":"announces-appointment-of-new-us-based-sales-and-customer-support-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/news\/announces-appointment-of-new-us-based-sales-and-customer-support-team\/","title":{"rendered":"International Workboat Show: Cox Powertrain announces appointment of new US-based sales and customer support team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As production of Cox Powertrain\u2019s high-powered CXO300 approaches, the diesel outboard specialist has revealed three key new appointments to support its US business and head up its sales and aftersales departments in this important market. Bruce Woodfin takes on the role of North America Account Manager and Bill Livingston will act as Aftersales Manager for the America\u2019s, while Steve Pitt becomes Global Aftersales and Warranty Manager, based at Cox\u2019s UK headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Woodfin graduated from Maine Maritime Academy, with a degree in yacht operations boatyard management, before working for yards in Marblehead and Salem Massachusetts. Since 2000, he has worked in marine propulsion, selling and supporting a wide range of products including jets, inboards, sterndrives and pods, and worked for Power Product Systems LLC for seven years prior to joining Cox Powertrain. During his time with Power Product Systems, his primary focus was selling and supporting Volvo Penta products to the New England lobster boat market, high-end yacht tenders, custom yachts and pilot boats.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Livingston started his career building engines for Caterpillar before moving into customer support and ultimately becoming Head of Caterpillar Concierge, the firm\u2019s premium aftersales service. He brings expertise and experience in project management, aftersales processes and customer service to Cox\u2019s North American team and will be based in Georgia but will relocate to Florida when Cox\u2019s US headquarters is in operation.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering exceptional aftersales support is a fundamental part of Cox Powertrain\u2019s philosophy and the firm has now strengthened its worldwide team to help it provide a second-to-none service. Taking on the role of Global Aftersales &amp; Warranty Manager is Steve Pitt, who brings experience in automotive aftersales, calibration and diagnostics and gained key marine aftersales and product development experience whilst employed by Hamilton Jet. Steve will be UK based at Cox\u2019s headquarters in West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt, Woodfin and Livingston will be joined by Cox\u2019s Louisiana distributor, Innovative Diesel Technology. at this year\u2019s International Workboat Show.<\/p>\n<p>David LeBlanc, Director of Sales and Product Development at Innovative Diesel Technology said, \u201cWe\u2019re inviting visitors to register online or via our stand at the show to experience an on-water demo to see a CXO300 in operation first-hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis high-powered diesel outboard has been greatly anticipated by the US commercial market. We\u2019re excited to be representing a brand-new engine that has no current equal on the market. Cox\u2019s emphasis on unrivalled aftersales also aligns perfectly with our own ethos of providing best-in-class products with unequalled product support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As production of Cox Powertrain\u2019s high-powered CXO300 approaches, the diesel outboard specialist has revealed three key new appointments to support its US business and head up its sales and aftersales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coxmarine.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}