Robert Campbell, Lamar’s Atlantic Regional Manager, and Tom Sirmon, Lamar’s Gulf Coast Regional Manager, who collectively have been with Lamar for more than 90 years, each announced just before Easter that they would be retiring this summer. Lamar has 7 regional managers who oversee more than 155 local offices. Here’s a little bit about each:
- Robert Campbell joined Lamar in 1972 as a posting manager in Mobile. After stints as a sales manager and general manager, Robert was appointed regional manager in 1983. Over the next nearly 40 years, Robert oversaw the integration of numerous meaningful acquisitions and hired and trained dozens of managers, including three of our current regional managers. He has served on the national legislative committee for the OAAA for two decades and, in 2007, he was inducted into the OAAA Hall of Fame.
- Tom Sirmon has been with Lamar for 42 years, starting in a sales position in 1979. During his career, Tom has held just about every job there is to do at the company. He quickly moved up the ladder from sales manager (Mobile) to general manager (Augusta) to territory manager (Gulf Coast) and ultimately to regional manager, where he has overseen offices from Ohio south to Florida and Virginia west to Louisiana over the past three decades.
With Robert and Tom’s impending retirements, we announced last week replacements in both regions:
- Tom Traylor, currently Lamar’s Birmingham-based Territory Manager and 30-year Lamar veteran, will assume the role of Gulf Coast Regional Manager. Traylor is an Auburn grad.
- Charlie Furman, will become Lamar’s new Atlantic Regional Manager. Furman has 24 years experience with Lamar, most recently has VP and Territory manager for Nashville/Clarksville/Jackson/Memphis/Paducah/Corinth . He is a University of Alabama grad.
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