Ray O’Connor promoted to Topcon managing executive officer

Tina Grady Barbaccia
Jun 28, 2012

Ray O’Connor has been promoted to managing executive officer 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.

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