C-Suites Reshuffle at Caterpillar, AMEC

摘要

Caterpillar Inc. has named the first woman executive to its C-suite, elevating Denise Johnson to group president of its mining-focused resources-industries segment, effective in April. She has been vice president of two divisions of the equipment giant since joining the Peoria, Ⅲ., corporation in 2011. Previously, she spent 22 years at General Motors in operations management roles in the U.S., Canada and Brazil. Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman credited Johnson's cost management of the equipment firm's hard-hit mining units, which employ about 8,000 people on four continents, it says. He also termed the mechanical engineering graduate of Michigan State University and MIT "a strong role model to recruit more female engineers." Johnson will succeed Ed Rapp, 58, who last month announced that he would retire early because of an ALS diagnosis.