AAON appoints Matt Tobloski as president, COO

AAON announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Matt Tobolski to the role of AAON President and COO. Gary Fields, the Company’s President, CEO and Director, will continue to serve as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Matt joined AAON in December 2021 following the acquisition of BASX, where he currently serves as President and Co-Founder. In this new role, Matt will lead AAON’s operations, engineering, sales, marketing, and administration teams overseeing approximately 3,800 employees across the organization. He will continue to build upon AAON’s decades of innovation, manufacturing prowess and customer-focused mindset while leveraging the talents and manufacturing capacity that exist across the entire AAON organization. Additional alignment of the executive leadership team will occur to leverage resources and organizational efficiencies with globally focused roles and collaborative site leadership. Dave Benson is appointed AAON Vice President and President of BASX, where he currently serves as Co-Founder and Chairman. Dave will take over Matt’s responsibilities at BASX and provide site leadership in Redmond, Oregon. Stephen Wakefield will assume the role of AAON Vice President and Executive Vice President of AAON Oklahoma continuing with many of the same job responsibilities and providing site leadership for the Oklahoma and Missouri locations. Doug Wichman will continue in his role as AAON Vice President and President of AAON Coil Products providing site leadership for the Texas facility. Alignment and addition of globally focused roles will occur to leverage the skills and talents across the organization and continue to drive our One AAON culture. Rob Teis is changing roles to Vice President of Business Technology to provide critical leadership as AAON continues evolving systems and processes across the organization. Previously, Rob was Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Andrew Edmondson will be promoted to AAON Executive Director of Sales and Marketing, taking over most of Rob’s prior duties. Larry Honel will be promoted to Executive Director of Global Operations and Whitney Wakefield will be promoted to Executive Director of Production Controls. All changes in this announcement are effective January 1, 2024.