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The Pohlad Companies, a privately held portfolio of businesses and investments spanning a variety of industries, today announced that effective February 4, 2019, Tom Pohlad, president and COO of Carousel Motor Group (CMG), will become CEO of PaR Systems LLC, a leading provider of automation, robotics and specialized material handling solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-information"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPohlad Companies Announces Leadership Changes at Carousel Motor Group and PAR Systems - PAR Systems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tom Pohlad will become CEO of PaR Systems, succeeding Mark Wrightsman, while Chase Hawkins takes over as president of Carousel Motor Group.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pohlad Companies Announces Leadership Changes at Carousel Motor Group and PAR Systems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom Pohlad will become CEO of PaR Systems, succeeding Mark Wrightsman, while Chase Hawkins takes over as president of Carousel Motor Group.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"PAR Systems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PARSystemsLLC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-30T21:12:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-17T22:54:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tom-and-chase2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1584\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mcwpadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mcwpadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mcwpadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c2fcf09991ef1b69544ba1f85eec9800\"},\"headline\":\"Pohlad Companies Announces Leadership Changes at Carousel Motor Group and PAR Systems\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-30T21:12:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-17T22:54:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/\"},\"wordCount\":12,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tom-and-chase2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Company Information\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.par.com\/2019\/01\/30\/pohlad-companies-announces-leadership-changes-carousel-motor-group-and-par-systems\/\",\"name\":\"Pohlad Companies Announces Leadership Changes at Carousel Motor Group and PAR Systems - 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