Owens-Illinois, Inc., (O-I) announced on 23 April 2009 that Jay L. Geldmacher has been appointed to serve on the company“s board of directors effective immediately.
Geldmacher, who will also serve …
Owens-Illinois, Inc., (O-I) announced on 23 April 2009 that Jay L. Geldmacher has been appointed to serve on the company“s board of directors effective immediately. Geldmacher, who will also serve as a member of the audit committee, is executive vice president of Emerson Electric Company, and also serves as president of Emerson Network Power“s Embedded Computing and Power Group. Prior to joining Emerson in 1996, he was executive vice president of Knowles Electronics. Jay will be a great addition to the board as we focus on strategic and profitable expansion in fast-growing regions, said Al Stroucken, O-I chairman and CEO. We welcome him to the board and look forward to the perspectives he“ll bring. Geldmacher, who holds a bachelor“s degree in marketing from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Chicago, currently serves on the advisory boards for the graduate and undergraduate programmes of the University of Arizona“s Eller College of Management.