James F.
Dicke, II
Chairman and CEO
Crown Equipment
Corporation
James Dicke is Chairman and CEO of Ohio-based Crown
Equipment Company. Mr. Dicke also has
served on the Board of Directors of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Commissioners, the Anderson-Cooke Air Force Museum Foundation, the Dayton Power
and Light Company, the National Museum of American Art, the Advisory Committee
for the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, and the Bicycle Museum
of America. He has been a member of the
Chief Executives Organization, the World Presidents Organization, past
International President of the Young Presidents Organization, the Dayton Art
Institute, as well as five corporate boards.
Crown manufactures electric lift trucks used in transporting
materials and goods in warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing
environments throughout the world.
Privately owned, Crown is the number one brand of electric lift
trucks in North America and the sixth largest manufacturer in the world. The company's
full product line includes manual propelled pallet trucks and stackers, power
pallet trucks and stackers, sit-down and stand-up counterbalanced trucks,
narrow-aisle reach trucks, very narrow-aisle turret trucks, order picking
equipment and forklift trucks.