Bj Bohne Net Worth 2026: Imperial Crane Services CEO

No reputable outlet has published a net worth for BJ Bohne, and the $41 million figure repeated on profile sites has no traceable source. He is president and CEO of Imperial Crane Services, the Illinois crane rental and sales company his father founded with a single crane in 1969. According to the publisher's description of Imperial Crane, a 2013 book he co-wrote, annual revenue grew fourfold under his leadership to well over $100 million.

What is BJ Bohne's net worth?

Imperial Crane is family-owned and does not publish financial statements, and no wealth publication has estimated Bohne's personal fortune. For that reason this page no longer states a single figure. The public markers are:

• Company scale. Imperial ranked No. 44 on the RER 100 list of U.S. equipment rental companies in 2015 and had a fleet of more than 250 cranes, from 18 to 600 tons (Rental Equipment Register).
• Revenue. Well over $100 million a year, per the book's publisher description. That is a company figure, not his income, and it comes from a book he co-authored rather than an independent audit.
• Real estate. In 2023 a trust overseen by Bohne listed a 13,000-square-foot Oak Brook mansion for $7.9 million, close to the DuPage County record, The Real Deal reported.

Yearly income

The earlier version of this page gave his income as $950,000 a year. No source supports that number, so it has been removed. As owner of a private company, his salary and distributions are not disclosed.

Imperial Crane Services: what the company does

Imperial rents and sells mobile and crawler cranes and heavy lift equipment, and supplies crane operators and managed lifting services to steel, petrochemical, manufacturing and construction projects. Its home office is in Bridgeview, Illinois. In a 2014 profile, Wind Systems magazine reported that it employed about 300 people across six locations from Bridgeview to LaPorte, Texas, had work underway in 10 states, and had entered the wind energy market after exhibiting at Windpower 2013.

The company's book says Imperial cranes worked on projects including Trump Tower in Chicago and facilities for Citgo and BP.

Deals and fleet growth

The 2015 order, placed through Riverdale, Illinois, dealer Walter Payton Power Equipment, covered two 40-ton Terex cranes, two 65-ton Grove units, a 115-ton and a 165-ton Grove, and two 350-ton Groves. The dealer's president credited Bohne's leadership for Imperial's growth. Speedway Crane, bought later that year, served steel and industrial customers and brought a clean safety record; at the time Imperial also had offices in Indiana and Texas. Wind Systems noted that Imperial had gone more than six years without a reportable accident and kept safety trailers on its large job sites.

Education and early career

No reliable published source confirms where BJ Bohne studied; the earlier version of this page named Arizona State University, which his brother Jonathan attended according to Jonathan's obituary. It also said he started in hydraulic skidding systems at another firm; we could not verify that and have left it out.

Family and personal life

His full name is Berkshire John "BJ" Bohne, as listed in the 2013 Chicago Tribune obituary of his younger brother Jonathan, who died suddenly at 30 and was a co-owner of Imperial Crane. Their parents were John A. Bohne and Gayle Bohne, and there is a third brother, Lancelot. After his brother's death BJ founded the Bohne Foundation, a charity.

His wife is Irena Bohne, according to The Real Deal. The earlier version of this page claimed he was married to the actor Christian Bale, which is false and has been removed, along with an unsourced height and weight. His age is not published by a reliable source.

Compared with other executives

Like Bob Lothenbach, who built a large private printing company in Minnesota, Bohne runs a business whose value is not public. For a finance executive with more disclosed wealth, see Blair Effron. Another family-run Midwest business is covered in Austin Musselman.

How this page was checked

Company facts come from Rental Equipment Register, KHL, Liebherr and Wind Systems magazine; family details from the Chicago Tribune obituary and The Real Deal; the revenue figure from the publisher's description of the 2013 book. The old net worth, income table, spouse, height and a self-referring link were removed because they could not be verified.