Marine & RV Wholesale Distributor

Two of Keller Marine and RV's long-time team members are retiring. Inside sales executive Robert Griffin and special orders executive Melissa Bilger have left the company after 25 years and 42 years of service, respectively.

Keller Marine and RV President Mike Keller said he met Griffin in the fall of 1991. Keller said he knew very quickly that Griffin was the person he wanted to help open the company's first cross dock in Albany, New York, and built the territory.

"He always had a passion for the RV parts business and for the customers he served — a passion that, I believe, came in part from having once been a dealer himself," Mike Keller said. "He came highly recommended throughout the industry, and I wanted someone dealers would already know and trust. Griff was that guy."

Mike Keller and Griffin hired a sales and delivery driver for the territory named Charlie Siwik. Keller said together, Griffin and Siwik began building what would later become Keller Marine and RV's New England Cross Dock.

Griffin left Keller in 1998 to work for a small dealership in Albany and spent a brief time outside of the RV industry. He returned to Keller as an inside sales executive in 2009.

"All told, Griff dedicated more than 25 years to Keller Marine and RV and built a loyal following of customers throughout the industry,” Keller said. “All of us at Keller Marine and RV will miss his wit, energy, and dedication. Griff will always be remembered here as the man who helped launch Keller's expansion from a single-location distributor in the Mid-Atlantic into a multi-state distributor serving nearly 30 states daily."