Intense Announce New CEO and CFO
Intense Cycles founder Jeff Steber and partner Marv Strand, announce yesterday that Andrew Herrick is joining the company as its Chief Executive Officer.
Herrick had spent the prior 11 years in an executive leadership position at crankbrothers, having sold the business 5 years prior and staying on as CEO until handing over the reins last summer. At that time, he stated that he wanted to find the next great opportunity in the complete bike industry.
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"This is another piece of our plan to transform Intense" said Jeff Steber, company founder and partner in Intense, "We had hoped we would find someone with Andrew's experience and passion for smaller companies. Andrew comes with a proven track history to grow companies both domestically and internationally with his marketing and sales knowledge."
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Herrick added, "When Jeff approached me, I had been looking at some other opportunities but Jeff, Marv and their team convinced me that they were ready and committed to doing something very special with Intense. With the heritage of this great brand and incredible product, I was convinced that this was my next opportunity."
"However", Herrick went on to say, "I knew I couldn't do it without a strong Chief Financial Officer to guide the company on the envisioned growth path, and the company's recent addition of Eelco Neirmeijer as CFO made the choice easier for me."
Steber and Strand had recently welcomed Eelco Niermeijer as the company's CFO. Eelco had come from a larger company environment where he held several financial positions at a public industrial group..
"I have spent some time looking at the Intense business and the bicycle market and I am thrilled to be joining the team, Niermeijer said. "This company just finished a year in which revenues grew more than 40% and this type of success is giving Intense the freedom to execute an exciting strategy and invest in its future. Andrew's ability to join the company is a direct result of our recent growth, and the strategic opportunities available to us. We will immediately begin building our finished goods inventory to make sure dealers and distributors can get bikes at very short notice from Intense and we will have a historic high level of inventory of our new bike which will be released in a couple of months from now. These are major initiatives for me personally in my role at Intense."
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The company expects to make several more announcements related to additional engineering and sales talent in the next weeks. Intense will excite the industry and riders with a major product launch that will be announced in detail on March 17.
WWW.INTENSECYCLES.COM
Herrick had spent the prior 11 years in an executive leadership position at crankbrothers, having sold the business 5 years prior and staying on as CEO until handing over the reins last summer. At that time, he stated that he wanted to find the next great opportunity in the complete bike industry.
"This is another piece of our plan to transform Intense" said Jeff Steber, company founder and partner in Intense, "We had hoped we would find someone with Andrew's experience and passion for smaller companies. Andrew comes with a proven track history to grow companies both domestically and internationally with his marketing and sales knowledge."
Herrick added, "When Jeff approached me, I had been looking at some other opportunities but Jeff, Marv and their team convinced me that they were ready and committed to doing something very special with Intense. With the heritage of this great brand and incredible product, I was convinced that this was my next opportunity."
"However", Herrick went on to say, "I knew I couldn't do it without a strong Chief Financial Officer to guide the company on the envisioned growth path, and the company's recent addition of Eelco Neirmeijer as CFO made the choice easier for me."
Steber and Strand had recently welcomed Eelco Niermeijer as the company's CFO. Eelco had come from a larger company environment where he held several financial positions at a public industrial group..
"I have spent some time looking at the Intense business and the bicycle market and I am thrilled to be joining the team, Niermeijer said. "This company just finished a year in which revenues grew more than 40% and this type of success is giving Intense the freedom to execute an exciting strategy and invest in its future. Andrew's ability to join the company is a direct result of our recent growth, and the strategic opportunities available to us. We will immediately begin building our finished goods inventory to make sure dealers and distributors can get bikes at very short notice from Intense and we will have a historic high level of inventory of our new bike which will be released in a couple of months from now. These are major initiatives for me personally in my role at Intense."
The company expects to make several more announcements related to additional engineering and sales talent in the next weeks. Intense will excite the industry and riders with a major product launch that will be announced in detail on March 17.
WWW.INTENSECYCLES.COM
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crank bros design and testing (i.e. products that might work)
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winning
My Crank Brothers Joplin set post too
Seriously though, are you looking for buyers?
The last paragraph seems to insinuate that lead times/availability was an issue before for intense.
That being said, I ride Santa Cruz (Nickel) and Giant (Glory DH). Also one of my good friends used to work at Intense and he now rides Yeti. Doesn't say much, but it might be a marker of things to come in terms of high-end taste in the enthusiast market, which bigger companies do cater to, but not as much as to the mass market.
maybe we should appoint you fupeoplekers and see what you can do ,
lots of big words and jargon i have rode every bike on the market 4k plus in the last year (thats owned not bummed off a bike shop or distributer) and without fail the carbine 29er is the BEST.
enough slating more praise i say.