Emerson Electric Co.(EMR) announced that it has promoted Craig Ashmore to the company's executive vice president. Ashmore has been senior vice president for planning and development since 2004. In October 2007 he was named a member of Emerson's office of chief executive, the company's top management team that sets global strategy.
Ashmore's duties, which will remain the same, include managing Emerson's strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate technology functions, as well as leadership of Emerson Network Power's connectivity solutions business.
Ashmore previously served as group vice president of Emerson Telecommunication Products, and from 2001 to 2003 was vice president of corporate profit planning. He joined Emerson in 1991 as a strategic planner, and early in his career held a number of marketing and management positions.
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