Would he - a globe-trotting U.S. executive with experience in international hotels, food services, retail and, most importantly, turnarounds - be interested in moving to Vancouver to take the helm at flagging Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, a seller of used crawler cranes, pile driver extractors, articulated dump trucks, boring machines, trucks, buses, frac tanks and other heavy equipment? Mr. Saligram's immediate thought was that he knew nothing about any of those things, let alone anything about selling them.