Valmont Industries Promotes Stephen Kaniewski To President And COO

(RTTNews) - Valmont Industries Inc. (VMI), a provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure development and mechanized irrigation equipment and services for agriculture, announced that it has promoted Stephen Kaniewski to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of Valmont. The appointment is effective October 1, 2016.

Kaniewski will become responsible for the daily operations of Valmont and will be reporting to Mogens Bay, Valmont's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Kaniewski has been Group President of Valmont's Utility Support Structures Segment since August, 2015, where under his leadership the utility team successfully transformed its operating model. Prior to that, he was the Utility group's Senior Vice President and Managing Director. Steve joined Valmont in 2010 as Vice President-Information Technology and has held the position of Vice President-Global Operations for the Irrigation Segment.