What Happened?
Cleveland, OH-based Parker has Promoted Joseph R. Leonti as General Counsel
About the Company
With annual sales of approximately $13 billion in fiscal year 2015, Parker Hannifin is the world`s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 59 consecutive fiscal years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index.
About the Person
Joseph Leonti is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Parker Hannifin Corporation. He is responsible for managing and overseeing all of Parker's worldwide legal affairs and matters concerning its Board of Directors and corporate governance. Leonti joined Parker in 2006. Prior to assuming his current role, he was responsible for Parker legal matters in various areas of specialty, including: worldwide mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other significant transactions; corporate governance and corporate secretarial matters; securities law compliance and disclosure; and corporate finance and treasury. Leonti holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Cleveland State University and a Juris Doctor from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.
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