Beckhoff USA adds business development managers

Buck Tanner and Steve Boelte

Beckhoff Automation, Savage, Minn., has hired Buck Tanner and Steve Boelte as business development managers.

Tanner began his career as a mechanical design engineer at SAIC before taking on sales and engineering roles at Rockwell Automation for roughly four years. For the past eight years, he worked at B&R Industrial Automation in a variety of sales and management positions, most recently vice president and director, eastern U.S.

Before joining Beckhoff, Boelte also spent eight years at B&R as territory sales manager and regional manager in the Milwaukee area. He previously held sales and management positions for other major electrical components suppliers, including seven years at Hinrich Electric and nearly six years at Werner Electric Supply.