Vecoplan adds mobile division national sales manager

Robert (Bob) Korkos has been named national sales manager, mobile division, at Vecoplan LLC, Archdale, North Carolina.

Responsible for managing sales of Vecoplan’s full line of shred trucks, Korkos will oversee the launch of Vecoplan’s new MST Series, which employs AXO dual-shaft, pierce-and-tear shredders on full-sized (33,000 gross vehicle weight, or GVW) and 26,000 GVW non-CDL (commercial driver’s license) truck chassis. Other responsibilities of his new position include working with Vecoplan R&D in the development of technologies aimed at the constant improvement of Vecoplan shred truck performance and with the marketing department to introduce these innovations to the marketplace.

Korkos brings more than 30 years of industrial equipment and fleet management experience to his new position, with the last 14 years in the secure document and data destruction industry. Prior to joining Vecoplan, he started, managed and then sold two secure shredding companies.

In 2002 Korkos established his first startup, Guardian Document Shredding Inc., in Milwaukee. Over the next four years, he grew the mobile shedding service company, then negotiated its sale to a Fortune 500 company in 2006. After the acquisition, he worked a sixth-month stint as a consultant during the transition. In 2007 Korkos founded Automated Shredding Inc. (profiled in the Summer 2015 issue of Secure Destruction Business magazine, a former sister publication to Recycling Today) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Also a mobile secure destruction provider, the success of Automated Shredding drew the attention of another Fortune 500 company, which bought the company in 2015.

“We’re fortunate to have someone of Bob’s caliber and experience join our team here at Vecoplan,” says Bob Gilmore, chief sales officer at Vecoplan LLC. “The market-specific, real-world expertise he brings to our mobile division will be invaluable in our ongoing efforts to engineer and build the best shred trucks in the industry.”