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Columbus McKinnon Appoints Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn to Board of Directors
BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Columbus McKinnon Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCO), a leading designer and manufacturer of motion control products, technologies,
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[{"type":"text","content":" BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nColumbus McKinnon Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCO), a leading designer and manufacturer of motion control products, technologies, automated systems and services for material handling, announced today the appointment of Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn to its Board of Directors, effective March 2, 2020. The addition of Ms. Beliveau-Dunn as an independent director, brings the Columbus McKinnon Board to nine directors, all of whom are independent and two of whom are women. She will serve on the Compensation and Succession Committee, and also the Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200306005027/en/Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn (Photo: Business Wire)\n\n“Jeanne is a visionary technology executive with a demonstrated track record of success in strategy deployment, planning, business structure optimization, and product and service creation,” commented Richard H. Fleming, Chairman of the Board and Interim CEO. “As a leading voice on digitization, the internet of things and collaborative knowledge systems, we are confident that she will provide valuable perspectives as we advance Phase III of our Blueprint for Growth strategy to further evolve into an industrial technology company.”\n\n\nMs. Beliveau-Dunn has more than 30 years of experience as a technology executive and is a recognized transformational leader that has successfully created differentiated strategies for growth and market leadership. Since 2018, Ms. Beliveau-Dunn has been the chief executive officer and president of Claridad LLC, a digital and internet of things consulting company. Previously, she was at Cisco Systems Inc. for 22 years which included eleven years as Vice President and General Manager of Services. Prior to Cisco, Ms. Beliveau-Dunn ran business operations at Micronics Computers and the secure systems product lines for Wang Laboratories.\n\n\nMs. Beliveau-Dunn served as President of the Board of the IoT Talent Consortium, a membership-driven non-profit organization from 2016 through March 2018. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Xylem, Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company, and Edison International (NYSE: EIX) and its subsidiary Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest elect...