OATS boosts its sales team


Two senior appointments are set to strengthen OATS' sales power.

The apppointments are the latest additions to the OATS sales team and will further strengthen the company's global expansion plans.  The news comes within months of the announcement of Richard Carney as the new COO.

New OATS sales team

David Valentyne, Jeremy Hyde & Henry Lee Image: OATS

The two new sales appointments are David Valentyne and Henry Lee.  Valentyne brings many years of experience in the lubricants industry across Southern Africa and Europe, having spent more than 10 years at Shell in a variety of roles including Global Business Development Manager for Retail.

Lee is an experienced International Sales Manager with a successful, high-performance track record in Business to Business and Business to Distributor environments.  He has worked for international industrial organisations including Linde Heavy Trucks and Atlet UK.  Like David, Henry delivers global expertise, having managed accounts across The Americas, Australia, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Both of them will be working alongside OATS Vice President, Jeremy Hyde and Joe Turley to manage key accounts in both global and local markets.  Hyde stated: "We are delighted to welcome David and Henry to our business, who both bring with them a wealth of sales and lubricants industry knowledge.  Their addition to our sales team will enable us to deliver first class service and strengthen relationships with all of our national, regional and international customers, delivering solutions to customers in over 100 countries all over the world that increase website traffic, reduce customer support costs and improve customer satisfaction.”