Canon U.S.A. appoints new management teams; Camera division and video division acquire new leadership.president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Canon U.S.A. Inc., announced today the following management changes in Canon U.S.A.'s camera and video divisions. Camera Division Ted Ando has been named director and general manager of the company's camera division. He replaces Hiroji (Hank) Maeda, who has returned to Japan to oversee new projects for Canon Inc. "Mr. Ando's extensive background and expertise in the photographic industry will further improve Canon's position in the marketplace, while continuing to provide the highest quality products and support to photographers and consumers," says Murase. Ando began his career at Canon U.S.A. in 1982 where he spent the next four years as the camera division's product planning Product Planning is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product’s feature set. See also
Video Division Murase has named Yukiaki Hashimoto to the position of director and general manager of the video division, replacing Ted Ando. Before his appointment to Canon U.S.A.'s video division, Hashimoto was general manager of the video products marketing division of Canon Inc., Tokyo, Japan. He held that position since 1993 and has been with Canon since 1972 contributing to many different areas of the company, including ten years in the administrative and budgeting departments of Canon Inc.'s photographic products group. Also, Scott Smith Scott Smith is the name of:
sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → -- video, South Western Region, where he was then promoted to senior regional sales manager in 1994. "We are confident that these new management changes will serve to strengthen the success of the video division and will make 1996 a year of continued growth," says Murase. Canon U.S.A. Inc., headquartered in Lake Success, is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging equipment and information systems. Canon's extensive product line enables businesses and consumers worldwide to capture, store and distribute visual information. Canon products  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . include camcorders; loudspeakers; black and white, as well as full-color copiers; micrographics The production, handling and use of microfilm and microfiche. Images are created by cameras or by COM units that accept computer output directly. The documents are magnified for human viewing by readers, some of which can automatically locate a page using indexing techniques. and optical disk filing systems; facsimile machines; word processors, typewriters and calculators; cameras and lenses; semiconductor, broadcast and optical equipment, and other specialized industrial products. Canon U.S.A. Inc. employs more than 8,000 people at 30 facilities throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . As a concerned corporate citizen, Canon instituted the Clean Earth Campaign in 1990, which supports various environmental and recycling initiatives. The campaign has collected more than ten million Canon toner An electrically charged ink used in copy machines and laser printers. It adheres to an invisible image that has been charged with the opposite polarity onto a plate or drum or onto the paper itself. cartridges for recycling and reuse as part of its "recycling in the workplace" effort. The Clean Earth Campaign has also supported leading environmental organizations and initiatives to help achieve its other goals of supporting programs that help preserve and protect the environment, enable people to enjoy the environment, and educate people as to its importance. Among organizations supported by Canon U.S.A. through its Clean Earth Campaign are The Nature Conservancy Nature Conservancy, nonprofit organization established in 1951 to preserve or aid in the preservation of natural environments. It protects wilderness areas in the United States and Canada and is affiliated with similar groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. , the National Park Foundation and the National Wildlife Federation. CONTACT: Canon U.S.A. Inc. Russell Marchetta, 516/328-5145 or The Rowland Co., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Louis Desiderio or Lisa Kaslyn 212/527-8811 / 8976 |
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