Lincoln Electric Adds New Board Member
Patrick Goris of Rockwell Automation will serve on the Audit and the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees.
Posted: July 21, 2018
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., (Cleveland, OH) announced that Patrick P. Goris, 47, a senior vice president and the chief financial officer of Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI), has been elected to Lincoln Electric’s Board of Directors. He has been appointed to serve on the Audit and the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees. His appointment expands their board to 11 directors, ten of whom are non-employee directors. “We are pleased to welcome Patrick to the board and believe his financial expertise and leadership in a multinational industrial organization will add tremendous value to our board and help advance our 2020 Strategy,” said Christopher L. Mapes, the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lincoln Electric.
Since joining Rockwell Automation in 2006, Goris has held various corporate and business finance leadership roles. Previously, he held numerous positions with increasing responsibility at Graphic Packaging International during his ten-year tenure with that organization. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the European University, Brussels, Belgium, and obtained an MBA from Emory University.
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