Thursday, Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. (LECO) appointed Anthony Battle as a company officer and Vice President of Internal Audit. Battle will have the responsibility for Lincoln's worldwide audit process and staff.
Battle joined Lincoln as an Audit Manager in 2003 and was promoted to Director, Internal Audit, in 2004. Prior to joining Lincoln, he held a number of management-level positions with the former TRW, Inc. and had also served as Audit Manager with Owens Corning.
Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and resells welding and cutting products worldwide. Its welding products include arc welding power sources, wire feeding systems, robotic welding packages, fume extraction equipment, consumable electrodes, and fluxes, as well as regulators and torches used in oxy-fuel welding and cutting.
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