JAMES McEVOY NEW PRESIDENT/CEO OF WIRTGEN AMERICA, INC.

August 29, 2007 – James McEvoy has been named president and CEO of Wirtgen America, Inc., effective Sept. 1, 2007, it was announced by current president/CEO Stuart W. Murray.

Effective Sept. 1, Murray will take on a new responsibility as president and chairman of Wirtgen, Inc., a holding company for all Wirtgen businesses in North America.

Vice president of sales and marketing Jeff Wiley has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and marketing, of Wirtgen America, reporting to McEvoy.

And Jan Schmidt is the new vice president, product support systems, for Wirtgen Group. Taking his position as product support manager is Scott Lyons.

McEvoy was vice president, sales and marketing and group channel development, for the Hamm Compaction Division. He joined Wirtgen America in April 2000 as vice president, sales and marketing for Hamm. Prior to joining Wirtgen America, Jim was employed for 12 years by Ingersoll-Rand Construction and Mining, and Road Development divisions, as a sales representative, culminating as manager of distribution development.

McEvoy is a graduate of Kings College in Wilkes Barre, Pa., with a B.S. degree in Business Administration.

Murray’s career spans decades in development, production and marketing of construction and asphalt pavement recycling equipment. He was appointed president and COO of Wirtgen America Inc. in 1991. He holds numerous patents for specialized road building equipment and belongs to a variety of national industry and professional associations. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York.

Wiley has been in the construction equipment industry for a quarter-century, and has extensive hands-on experience with milling machines. He joined Wirtgen in January 1991, as sales manager for the Midwestern region, and was named vice president, sales and marketing at Bauma 2001. Jeff began his career in 1979 as a service engineer for Barber-Greene Inc. for milling machines, asphalt pavers, and concrete slipform machines. In 1985 he moved from service into the Barber-Greene sales department.

EDITORS PLEASE NOTE
Digital portraits of McEvoy, Murray and Wiley are available on request from Tom Kuennen at expwys@expresswaysonline.com

BACKGROUNDER
Wirtgen America, Inc., Nashville, is the North American arm of the Wirtgen Group, the single-source marketer of the world's most technologically advanced lines of asphalt reclaiming and recycling equipment from Wirtgen, asphalt and soil compactors from Hamm Compaction Division, and U.S.-sourced asphalt pavers from Vögele America Inc. In late 2004 Reinhard Wirtgen, founder of Wirtgen Group, was honored as one of the "Top 100 Private Sector Transportation Design & Construction Professionals of the 20th Century" by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA).

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