Topcon Corporation Promotes Ray O'Connor to Senior Managing Executive Officer
June 27, 2012 at 05:14 pm EDT
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Topcon Corporation announced the promotion of Ray O'Connor to managing executive officer, the president and CEO of Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), has been promoted to company senior managing executive officer. He has also been named president of the newly formed Positioning company division of Topcon Corporation. In 2010 O'Connor became the first non-Japanese executive officer of the 80-year-old company. O'Connor is also chairman of the board of Topcon Europe Positioning, as well as chairman of both Sokkia America Corporation and Sokkia Europe BV, and serves as direct adviser to Topcon President Norio Uchida. He will continue to fill these present positions, as well as other positions within the corporation.
Topcon Corp is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of smart infrastructure products, positioning products and eye care products. The Company operates in four business segments. The Smart Infrastructure segment provides total stations, Layout navigators, three-dimensional (3D) mobile measurement systems, three-dimensional (3D) laser scanners, data collectors, theodolites, rotating lasers and pipe lasers, among others. The Positioning Company segment provides global positioning systems (GPSs) for location survey, civil engineering machine control systems, asset management systems and machine control systems for precision agriculture, among others. The Eye Care segment provides fundus cameras, slit lamps, laser photocoagulators, non-contact type Tono meters, lens edgers, vision inspection equipment and others. The Others segment engages in precision measurement business and optical device business.