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Alumnus Jim Umpleby Appointed Caterpillar Group President
October 16, 2012
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology alumnus Jim Umpleby has been
elected a group president of Caterpillar Inc. with responsibility
for the company's energy and power systems business. He will assume
his new role effective January 1, 2013.
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Jim Umpleby
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Umpleby, a 1980 mechanical engineering alumnus, has spent the
past two years as Caterpillar vice president and the president of
Solar Turbines, which he joined in 1980. At Solar Turbines he has
worked around the world in positions with increasing
responsibilities in engineering, manufacturing, sales, and customer
services.
"With more than 30 years of leadership experience with Solar
Turbines and Caterpillar, Jim brings extensive knowledge and
understanding of the global energy and power systems industry to
our executive office," stated Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug
Oberhelman in a corporate news release. "Jim understands the
highly complex and global nature of the customers we serve in the
energy, rail, and power industries. As the leader of our Solar
Turbines business, he has demonstrated results in a global
business, serving customers in the oil and gas and power generation
industries. Jim's deep expertise in these industries and his
demonstrated success as the vice president for Solar Turbines make
him an ideal leader for our Energy & Power Systems group."
Umpleby joined Solar Turbines as an associate engineer following
graduation from Rose-Hulman. Over the course of the next decade
with the company, he held a number of engineering and sales
positions, including assignments in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. In 1994, he became the director of power systems
operations and facility manager of Solar Turbine's Kearny Mesa gas
turbine packaging facility. In 1997, he became a Solar Turbine vice
president, with responsibility for customer services, and in 2000
was named vice president for Turbomachinery Products. In 2005,
Umpleby assumed responsibilities as a general manager for global
services for Caterpillar, a Peoria-based assignment in
Caterpillar's Product Support Division. He was named Solar
Turbine's vice president for oil and gas in 2007.
Umpleby received the Rose-Hulman Alumni Association's Career
Achievement Award in 2000. He completed an executive leadership
program at the International Institute for Management Development
(IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1996. He is an executive
committee member of the board of directors of the Interstate
Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Foundation.
With 2011 sales and revenues of $60.138 billion, Caterpillar is
the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining
equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines,
and diesel-electric locomotives.