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Vyomesh Joshi Joins Harris Corp. Board

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Vyomesh_Joshi

Vyomesh Joshi has been elected to the board of directors at Harris. Mr. Joshi is also a director of Wipro, and served as a member of the board at Yahoo from 2005 to 2012.

Mr. Joshi, 59, retired in 2012 after a 32-year career at HP, where he most recently was executive vice president of the company’s Imaging and Printing Group.

Mr. Joshi holds master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.

 

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