Press Releases

JOHANNESBURG — Point of Rental’s South African team continues to grow, adding industry experts Nhlanhla Nkomo and Leon Du Plessis as Account Executives. “Our mission is to empower people worldwide to better their businesses and themselves through rental software,” said Point of Rental CEO Wayne Harris. “I think Nhlanhla and Leon embody that spirit and that their abilities will ensure they’re able to empower African hire and rental companies to achieve – or even exceed – their goals.” Leon joins the team having spent the last four years at Eazi Access, a South African leader in the access rental industry.

Principal DevOps Engineer Collin Pike named team’s Chief Architect FORT WORTH, Texas — Point of Rental is expanding its focus on providing scalable, secure, and reliable cloud hosting by creating a cloud engineering division, headed by new Chief Architect of Cloud Engineering Collin Pike. “Business takes place in the cloud, even in the rental industry,” said Point of Rental VP of Global Technology Evan Fort. “In order to grow properly, it’s important that we coordinate between our products and plan to implement best in class hosting across our suite.” Point of Rental currently uses several different types of cloud hosting.

FORT WORTH, Texas — After starting with the company as a developer eight years ago, Matt Gaffin has now been named as the company’s new Director of Development. “Mobile development isn’t simply for mobile devices – those devices need to work with traditional desktops in ways that are familiar to users on both ends,” said Point of Rental CEO Wayne Harris. “Matt’s knowledge of both sides of our software and leadership abilities make him a great fit for this role.” Matt was one of the original members of Point of Rental’s Essentials team, helping build what was then called Point