Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Discussion of legal matters is incorporated by reference to Part II, Item 8, Note 19, “C ommitments and Contingencies,” in the Notes to Consolidated and Combined Financial Statements.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
None.
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INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Set forth below are the names, ages, positions and experience of our executive officers. All of our executive officers hold office at the pleasure of our Board of Directors.
Name Age Position
Shyam P. Kambeyanda 52 President and Chief Executive Officer and Director
Kevin Johnson 47 Chief Financial Officer
Olivier Biebuyck 52 President, Fabrication Technology
Michele Campion 46 Chief Human Resources Officer
John Dion 58 Senior Vice President, ESAB Business Excellence
Curtis Jewell 41 Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Eleanor Lukens 58 President, Americas
Vusa Mlingo 53 Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Shyam P. Kambeyanda has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2022. Mr. Kambeyanda has been President and Chief Executive Officer of ESAB since May 2016. As the leader of ESAB, Mr. Kambeyanda has overseen the growth of the fabrication technology business, expanding ESAB’s global operations, improving financial performance and driving EBX throughout the business. Prior to joining ESAB, Mr. Kambeyanda most recently served as the President Americas for Eaton Corporation’s Hydraulics Group. Mr. Kambeyanda joined Eaton in 1995 and held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, quality, e-commerce, product strategy, and operations management in the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Asia. Mr. Kambeyanda maintains a keen international perspective on driving growth and business development in emerging markets. Mr. Kambeyanda holds bachelor’s degrees in Physics and General Science from Coe College in Iowa and in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University. Mr. Kambeyanda also earned his M.B.A from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is a Six Sigma Green Belt.
Kevin Johnson has been Chief Financial Officer of ESAB since May 2019. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Vice President, Finance, of Colfax, where his responsibilities included leading investor relations, financial planning and analysis and supporting acquisition diligence and integration. Prior to that, Mr. Johnson held a number of senior finance and system implementation roles at Colfax companies from 2001 to 2017, during which time he gained extensive global experience in roles of increasing responsibility including as Chief Financial Officer for Howden Africa, a South African publicly-listed company. Mr. Johnson is qualified as a CPA in Australia and holds an undergraduate degree (BSSc) from Queens University, Northern Ireland, a master’s degree in accounting (MAcc) from Macquarie University, Australia, and an M.B.A. from Hasselt University, Belgium.
Olivier Biebuyck has been President, Fabrication Technology of ESAB since January 2023. Prior to his current role, Mr. Biebuyck served as President, EMEA of ESAB from April 2021 to January 2023. Mr. Biebuyck joined ESAB in May 2017 as VP/GM of ESAB’s filler metals business and served in senior global positions with the company. Before joining ESAB, Mr. Biebuyck was an executive at Honeywell where he served as VP/GM of Honeywell Electronics Materials from July 2015 until April 2017 after being the Chief Marketing Officer of Honeywell Process Solutions from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Biebuyck was an executive at Lafarge where he held several P&L leadership roles and a senior management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Biebuyck holds a master’s degree in commercial engineering from the Solvay Business School at the Brussels University in Belgium.
Michele Campion has been ESAB’s Chief Human Resources Officer since April 2022 and previously served as Vice President, Human Resources of ESAB. Ms. Campion leads ESAB’s global human resources strategy in partnership with the executive team. Prior to joining ESAB, she served as Vice President, Human Resources at Under Armour, Inc. from November 2014 to September 2020. She also held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility in human resources at McCormick & Co., BP, International Partnership for Microbicides and Areas Global TB Vaccine Foundation. Ms. Campion earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and an M.S. degree in Biotechnology with a concentration in Biotech Enterprise from Johns Hopkins University.
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John Dion has been Senior Vice President, ESAB Business Excellence (EBX) since February 2023. Mr. Dion joined ESAB in May 2022 as Vice President, ESAB Business Excellence. Mr. Dion is responsible for leading ESAB’s EBX journey globally. In this role, he develops and leads the strategy and roadmap for strengthening and scaling the EBX culture. He is an industry executive with 35 years of industrial and life sciences experience. For over twenty years, Mr. Dion held positions of increasing responsibility at Danaher Corporation, most recently serving as a Senior Vice President with responsibility for service, customer service and the Danaher Business System within Danaher’s Pall business from May 2016 to April 2019 and Chief Transition Officer and Danaher Business System Leader in connection with Danaher’s acquisition of GE BioPharma from April 2019 until May 2021. Mr. Dion provided consulting services to ESAB and PHC Holdings Corporation from February 2022 until he joined ESAB in May 2022. Mr. Dion earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Connecticu t.
Curtis Jewell has been Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary of ESAB Corporation since April 2022 and previously served as General Counsel of ESAB. He has significant experience leading legal teams through complex acquisitions and crossborder initiatives while driving process improvement. Prior to his appointment at ESAB, he was the Corporate Secretary of Colfax Corporation, where he held roles of increasing responsibility since joining in February 2011. Before joining Colfax, Mr. Jewell was in private practice at Hogan Lovells LLP, where he focused on securities law and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital market transactions. He began his legal career at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York. Mr. Jewell earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and his law degree from The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he also received a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from The Wharton School.
Eleanor Lukens has been President, Americas of ESAB Corporation since January 2023. Ms. Lukens oversees ESAB’s fabrication technology business in North America and South America. Before joining ESAB, Ms. Lukens served in multiple leadership roles at AMETEK, a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, for fifteen years. Most recently, she was Vice President and General Manager at AMETEK from August 2020 until January 2023, with global responsibility for four operating business units serving commercial aerospace, defense, aftermarket, and business jet, and Vice President, General Manager for AMETEK’s measurement and power systems division from September 2016 to July 2020. Earlier in her career, Ms. Lukens worked for Teleflex Incorporated and Drexelbrook Engineering. Ms. Lukens earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering technology from Spring Garden College and a Master of Business Administration with honors from Temple University, Fox School of Management.
Vusa Mlingo has been the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development of ESAB Corporation since January 2022. Mr. Mlingo oversees ESAB’s strategic planning, market and growth opportunity assessments, and ESAB’s global acquisition pipeline. Prior to ESAB, Mr. Mlingo served as Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy at SPX FLOW, Inc., a leading provider of process solution components and systems, from April 2019 to January 2022 and previously led the company’s mergers and acquisitions as Vice President of Business Development from March 2018 to April 2019. From 2006 to March 2019, Mr. Mlingo worked for Ingersoll Rand, where he served in various roles of increasing responsibility within corporate development and strategy, product management, and capital markets. Mr. Mlingo holds a bachelor’s degree with Honors from the University of Zimbabwe and an MBA from Howard University.
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