James J. Lindemann

James J. Lindemann has been a director since 2007. Until his retirement in 2018, he was Executive Vice President of Emerson Electric Co. (Emerson), a publicly-traded manufacturing company based in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Lindemann joined Emerson in 1977, where he has held a number of increasingly responsible engineering and marketing positions with its Specialty Motor business unit. In 1992, he was named President of Commercial Cam, and in 1995, he was named President of the Emerson Appliance Motor business unit. In 1996, Mr. Lindemann was promoted to Chairman and CEO of the Emerson Motor Co. He was named Senior Vice President of Emerson in 1999 and Executive Vice President in 2000. Mr. Lindemann served on the Emerson Advisory Board from 2000 to 2016 and has been a Board member of the CEO Forum since 2003. The Board selected Mr. Lindemann to serve as a director based on his experiences with Emerson, where he has served as a senior manager of a public manufacturing company, obtained international expertise and worked successfully with large corporate enterprises.