Milestone Equipment Holdings, LLC announced the appointment of Sarah Johnson as President of Highway Branch Operations, effective immediately. She will step into the role previously held by Stephen Ellison, who is retiring, and will report to Jeff Alpert, President of Milestone Trailer Leasing. Previously, Sarah spent 11 years with the company in a number of commercial and operational positions.

Her new role will include all day to day oversight of operational and commercial activities for the Milestone highway rental branch network of 19 locations nationwide, headquartered in St. Charles, Missouri.

Milestone Trailer Leasing also announced that Sean Ellison has been appointed as Vice President of Fleet Management. Sean has been with the company since 2008. In addition, John Brockmeier has been promoted to Director of Operations. John joined the company in 2012 and has over 25 years of experience in trailer leasing.

Sonia Golden joined Milestone Equipment Holdings in October 2014 as the director of Financial Planning & Analysis, reporting to Cliff Porzenheim, President and COO. Sonia has over 18 years of financial accounting and planning experience in the real estate and banking industries.

Milestone Equipment Holdings is a premier full-service transportation equipment lessor specializing in highway trailers, intermodal trailers, domestic intermodal containers and chassis. The company’s 40,000 unit equipment fleet is provided to its customers under flexible operating lease structures. Milestone was founded by its Chief Executive Officer, Robert Thull, in 1995. Milestone has been a Blackstone Group portfolio company since December 2012.