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Cleveland, OH-based Parker has Retired Thomas A. Piraino 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
Thomas Piraino is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Parker Hannifin Corporation. He is responsible for managing the Company’s legal and government contract compliance affairs. He oversees all of Parker’s domestic and international legal operations. Piraino joined Parker in 1981 as Assistant Secretary and Legal Counsel.He most recently served as Vice President - Law and Assistant Secretary. Prior to joining Parker, Piraino served as Senior Counsel for Diamond Shamrock Corp. of Dallas, Texas. He began his legal career as an associate with the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Cleveland. Piraino holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and a Law degree from Cornell Law School in Ithaca, N.Y. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar and the American Bar Association and is a past president of the Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries.
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