11.05.2016

New director for Oshkosh

JLG and IMT owner Oshkosh as appointed Kim Metcalf-Kupres as a non-executive director, she is chief marketing officer for Johnson Controls.
Her appointment takes the Oshkosh board to 13 directors, 12 of whom are independent.

Chairman Richard Donnelly said: “We are pleased to welcome Kim as the newest member of the Oshkosh board of directors. Kim is a champion of strategic deployment, innovation, and commercial excellence and her experience in channel management, business development and strategic marketing will assist our business and global expansion initiatives. In addition, she believes strongly in focusing on the customers’ needs, understanding market dynamics and creating new technologies, all consistent with the Oshkosh Corporation MOVE strategy.”
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Kim Metcalf-Kupres

Metcalf-Kupres joined Johnson Controls in 1994 and has been in her current role since May 2013 and is responsible for strategy, innovation and business transformation, along with sales, marketing and communications functions across the business. She is actively engaged in gender parity work sponsored by the World Economic Forum.

Prior to Johnson Controls she worked in marketing and business development roles at food packaging and processing company Menasha for just over two years and before that Scotsman ice systems as product and marketing manager, she began her career as a product manager with Illinois Tool Works. She is based in Milwaukee and sits on the board of the Literacy Services of Wisconsin.