“It has been a privilege to serve Great Dane as CEO over the past 25 years, where both our internal team and our customers feel like family,” Crown said. “Dean and I have worked closely together, and Dean has been a terrific leader and president for Great Dane. I step aside with confidence that Great Dane is in good and capable hands.”
“I am honored to accept my new role as CEO of Great Dane,” Engelage said. “I look forward to working with our dedicated team to further the Company’s market leadership and equip our customers for the future, while maintaining the first-class customer experience they expect from us.”
Additionally, Bill Crown and Dean Engelage announced that they have named Rick Mullininx to succeed Engelage as president and chief operating officer of Great Dane, also effective Jan. 1, 2023. Mr. Mullininx has been with Great Dane for 40 years and served in various engineering and manufacturing roles within Great Dane for all that time, which makes him one of the company’s most senior associates. He now is EVP of engineering, responsible for product design, production engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality assurance, and customer service.
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Dean Engelage said, “I am delighted to have Rick Mullininx step up to take over responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of the Great Dane Team. I know he will do a terrific job.”
Rick Mullininx first joined Great Dane in 1980 when he took a summer engineering position as an intern in the research and development department in Savannah, Georgia. Soon after, he accepted a position as an engineer in production design and development, responsible for developing designs for customer orders. Prior to his most recent role as the EVP of engineering, Mullininx served as the VP of engineering, responsible for the design and production engineering for five trailer product lines in addition to previous manufacturing engineering duties.
