Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
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Information About Our Executive Officers
Our executive officers as of October 31, 2023, were as follows:
Name Age Officer Since Position or Office with the Company and Business Experience During the Past Five (5) Year Period
Sundaram Nagarajan 61 2019 President and Chief Executive Officer, 2019
Stephen Shamrock 51 2023 Vice President and Corporate Controller, Interim Chief Financial Officer, 2023
James E. DeVries 64 2012 Executive Vice President, 2012
Stephen P. Lovass 54 2017 Executive Vice President, 2017
Jennifer McDonough 52 2021 Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, 2021
Joseph P. Kelley 51 2020 Executive Vice President, 2020
Sarah Siddiqui 46 2023 Executive Vice President, 2023
Srinivas Subramanian 53 2022 Executive Vice President, 2022
Effective August 1, 2019, Sundaram Nagarajan was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company. Prior to becoming our President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nagarajan served as Executive Vice President, Automotive OEM Segment, with Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW), a global manufacturer of a diversified range of industrial products and equipment, since 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Nagarajan served as Executive Vice President, Welding Segment, with Illinois Tool Works from 2010 to 2015. Mr. Nagarajan joined the Board of Directors of Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) in 2022. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Sonoco Products Company (NYSE: SON) from 2015 to 2022.
Effective November 1, 2023, Stephen Shamrock was appointed as Vice President and Corporate Controller, Interim Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Nordson in March 2022, Mr. Shamrock was Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer from October 2021 to March 2022 and Vice President Finance from April 2021 to October 2021 of Wyandot Snacks, Inc., a custom snack manufacturer. Prior to Wyandot, Mr. Shamrock spent nearly seven years with Materion Corporation (NYSE: MTRN), an advanced materials company, where he was Vice President, Corporate Controller and Investor Relations, as well as Interim Chief Financial Officer for a five-month period. Mr. Shamrock also served in roles of increasing responsibility at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Nasdaq: GT), and the audit practice of KPMG, LLP.
Effective November 1, 2023, Joseph P. Kelley was appointed as Executive Vice President and Industrial Precision Solutions segment leader. Previously, Mr. Kelley served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since July 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kelley had previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Materion Corporation, (NYSE: MTRN), an advanced materials company, since 2015. Throughout his career, he served in roles of increasing financial responsibility at Materion, Avient Corporation (formerly known as PolyOne Corporation) (NYSE: AVNT), a specialty chemicals company, and Lincoln Electric (Nasdaq: LECO), a global manufacturer.
Effective August 1, 2022, Stephen P. Lovass was named Executive Vice President - Medical and Fluid Solutions. Previously, Mr. Lovass served as Corporate Vice President since November 2016. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lovass served as President for one of the global sensors and controls businesses for Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), an international Fortune 200, diversified science and technology company, from 2012 to 2016. Prior to joining Danaher, Mr. Lovass served as a Senior Vice President and Corporate Officer for Gerber Scientific, Inc., an automated systems manufacturer for sign-making, specialty graphics and packaging.
Effective November 1, 2021, Jennifer L. McDonough was named Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and leads the Company’s global legal function in ethics and compliance, intellectual property and other general corporate legal matters. Ms. McDonough brings over 20 years of experience advising companies on wide-ranging, critical corporate initiatives and most recently served as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), a Fortune 500 utility company, where she was responsible to deliver extensive legal counsel and services, including in the areas of general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture capital and investment transactions, securities and finance. Prior to joining PPL in 2017, Ms. McDonough served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at REX Energy Corporation, an independent condensate, NGL and natural gas company, having joined REX Energy in April 2011, and before that as Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at Kennametal Inc., a global manufacturer and provider of engineered products and solutions (NYSE: KMT), which she joined in May 2005. She began her career as a business and finance attorney with the international law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP.
Effective February 20, 2023, Sarah Siddiqui was named Executive Vice President - Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Siddiqui served as Vice President of HR, Operations Engineering, Digital and Corporate Functions from August 2020 to February 2023 and Executive Director of HR, Operations, UTC Aerospace Systems from February 2018
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to July 2020 of Collins Aerospace at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), an aerospace and defense company. Before joining Collins Aerospace, she had various roles of increasing responsibilities within the HR function at United Technologies and Citigroup.
Effective August 1, 2022, Srinivas Subramanian was named Executive Vice President - Advanced Technology Solutions. Previously, Mr. Subramanian served as Vice President of the Electronics Processing Solutions business, having served in various roles of increasing responsibility since joining the Company in 2006.
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