Redcat hires jeff johns as president

[Fly In My Soup]

Phoenix, Arizona, December 10, 2018 – Redcat Racing the premier source for quality gas, nitro and electric powered RC vehicles, today announced that the company has hired Jeff Johns as company President.  As President, Jeff will assume responsibility of all day to day leadership of the company.

Jeff is a 20-year veteran in the hobby grade remote control industry.  He began his career in the hobby industry in 1998 with HPI and then in 2005 was founder, co-owner and President/CEO of Axial, a manufacturer of high end RC products and accessories.  Under Jeff’s leadership he grew the company’s product offering and developed a successful international brand which was acquired by Hobbico in early 2012 and continued on as Vice President of Axial R/C Inc. until joining the Redcat team.

 

“For nearly two decades, Jeff has built an impressive track record of strategic, operational and international brand development in the RC industry,“ said Darin Oreman, CEO/Founder of Redcat Racing.  “He has a proven to be a successful and trusted leader and brings to this position a strong reputation for developing quality RC products, people and brand loyalty. His wealth of experience across the industry and internationally, will be a valuable asset as we continue to accelerate the growth of Redcat as a worldwide leader in the hobby industry. “

“I am honored and excited to start this amazing new adventure and look forward to working with Darin and the Redcat team” said Jeff Johns.

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[Oh How Original]

That's a very weird move, I saw he had decided to leave Axial, but moving to a competitors brand and away from the company he created?

Redcat must be making moolah!

[mond]

Or horizon gave him the boot. Same thing happened to Losi

[DartmoorTrails]

On the face of it you've got to think this is quite a coup for Redcat... Will be interested to see what differences he'll make.
Quite like some of the Redcat kit[emoji106]

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