New independent director at Caterpillar

US-based Caterpillar has announced that Nazzic S. Keene, former chief executive officer of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has been appointed to the Caterpillar board of directors, from November 2024.

Remote demontration at Caterpillar (Image: Mitchell Keller) A Caterpillar operator, on right, runs an excavator, on left, remotely at the OEM’s Edwards, Illinois, US, demonstration and training facility. (Image: Mitchell Keller)

Keene will serve on Caterpillar’s Nominating & Governance Committee and Compensation & Human Resources Committee.

“We are pleased to welcome a leader of such high caliber to our board,” said Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Jim Umpleby.

“With Nazzic’s leadership history of driving growth and change in the information technology industry, Caterpillar is well positioned to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world and deliver long-term profitable growth.”

Keene, 64, retired in 2023 after four years as CEO and a director of SAIC, a multi-billion-dollar global company engaged in integrating information technology systems that manage engineering, large-scale IT modernisation, and security, logistics, simulation and data analytics for government bodies.

She was appointed to the position of CEO and elected as a director after having served as Chief Operating Officer of SAIC from 2017 to 2019 and as the President of Global Markets & Missions from 2013 to 2017.

View Caterpillar’s sales for 2023 compared to the rest of construction’s OEMs in International Construction’s Yellow Table.

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