for Our History
Sets Us Apart
Continue advancing our products through a commitment to our employees, superior product design, advanced manufacturing capabilities and robust distribution networks. Nurture and grow the long-term customer, partner and distributor relationships that we’ve established over decades of operations by delivering unparalleled service-level quality that, to this day, remains the gold standard of our industry.
Integral to our business and our future is a digital strategy which will continue to revolutionize our products and operations in a rapidly evolving world. This digital transformation is critical to delivering integration-ready products for safety and back-office functionality for our customers and delivering data-driven intelligent applications to inform our business strategies and supply chain requirements.
Engage in relentless collaboration with customers, employees, partners, and vendors to identify and solve industry challenges impacting everyday operations. Lead the charge in delivering improved feature implementations and significant performance enhancements that positively contribute to the safety of our employees and customers and their financial success.
Is What Makes Us
Brett is the President & Chief Executive Officer joining Tornado in June 2021. Brett is a hydrovac industry leader; he was the Vice President of Operations and Fleet Manager for Badger franchises in Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara. He started a successful hydrovac service operation in Ontario using Tornado trucks and, from 2016 to 2021, was a co-founding partner of Rival Hydrovac Inc.
Derek Li has spent over 15 years in finance positions at businesses in the manufacturing and oil & gas industries. For the last 5 years he has been overseeing finance at Tornado. Prior to this he was Regional Finance Manager for Clean Harbors, a North America’s leading provider of environmental and industrial services. From 2011 to 2015, he was Assistant Controller for Superior Gas Liquids, a division of Superior Plus, a leading North American distributor and marketer of propane and distillates and related products and services.