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News Doug Oberhelman to retire from Caterpillar in March 2017

Doug Oberhelman to retire from Caterpillar in March 2017

Written by Global Cement staff 18 October 2016
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US: Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman will retire from Caterpillar on 31 March 2017. The company’s board of directors has elected Jim Umpleby, currently a Caterpillar Group President with responsibility for Energy & Transportation, to succeed Oberhelman as CEO.

Umpleby, a 35-year veteran of the company, will join the Caterpillar Board of Directors and become CEO effective 1 January 2017. He joined Solar Turbines in San Diego, California in 1980. Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar, is a manufacturer of industrial gas turbine systems. Early in his career, he held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing and customer services. Umpleby lived in Asia from 1984 to 1990 with assignments in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Caterpillar Board of Directors elected Umpleby a Caterpillar Vice President and President of Solar Turbines in 2010. He was named Group President and a member of Caterpillar’s Executive Office, effective from January 2013.

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