Staff Bios

ThibaudeauPower Products Marketing is pleased to announce the addition of Isaac Thibaudeau to its growing team. Isaac is 25 years old and grew up in Brazil from the time he was 3 years old, although he has traveled between the U.S. and Brazil his whole life.

Greg Boeder is a trained Mechanical engineer who has spent more than 12 years investigating companies and market segments for leading international clients as part of his market research career. Boeder also has a MBA with an emphasis on venture strategy and marketing from St. Thomas University, a leading Midwest business school.

Dave Crocker is a noted writer in the powersports and non-automotive engine driven markets. Crocker also has prepared articles and been published in other leading marine and industrial trade publications. He has over 30 years experience of market research experience in the fields of powersports, marine, medium/heavy-duty truck, and off-highway markets.

Schultz has spent more than six years in sales and marketing capacities serving the power equipment markets with Power Products Marketing and other international research firms. He has more than 19 years of sales and marketing experience, specializing in new ventures. These new ventures include: Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, New Divisions, Turn-Arounds and Financial-Broken Companies.

Schultz also is the founder and owner of a publishing firm based in Minneapolis, which produces pocket-sized booklets on various subjects.

Brugioni is responsible for all of the telephone surveys done at Power Products Marketing. In addition to doing the actual survey, he helps develop the questionnaire and writes a summary report analyzing the data collected. He also participates in conducting personal interviews on major projects. His research helps collect new product information on powersports equipment (ATVs, motorcycles, scooters, snowmobiles, PWC, utility vehicles and receational utility vehicles), agricultural equipment and off-highway equipment.

Camp manages the team of analysts tracking U.S. imports at Power Products Marketing. He is responsible for developing and updating a wide range of databases tracking North American retail sales of equipment by make and model, primarily by analyzing U.S. import data from a wide range of public and private sources.

Joe Delmont is the former award-winning Business Editor for the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press daily newspaper, and he has nearly four decades of experience in researching and writing stories and producing reports about companies and market segments around the world.

In addition to his newspaper experience, Delmont has served as an award-winning marketing strategist for a variety of clients ranging from a national chain of health and fitness clubs to several national banks and insurance companies.

LaValle's first experience with heavy equipment and engines started 20 years ago in the U.S. Navy, where he calibrated measuring devices for the diesel engines in the submarine force.

He took a position at a market research company 15 years ago managing, updating and forecasting worldwide production of agriculture equipment, construction machinery, medium and heavy on highway trucks, generator sets and engines. The information was compiled in a database which was used to perform market and competitive analysis for the largest of the corporations within the industry.