USA. Lowrance names Paul C. Murphy Chief Financial Officer PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 03 January 2006
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Lowrance Electronics, Inc. a leader in recreational SONAR and GPS innovations, today announced that Paul C. Murphy has been named Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, effective December 28, 2005. Murphy succeeds Douglas Townsdin, who left the Company to accept a partnership position with the Tulsa office of Grant Thornton LLP.

Murphy, 61, was most recently Chief Operating Officer with the American Cancer Society, Kansas City, MO, where he was responsible for all operations of a $42 million four-state Division of the Society, including finance and administrative support departments with 325 employees. From 1991 through 1999, he was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of NANCI Corporation, a $60 million Tulsa, Oklahoma-based nutritional products and marketing company, where he was responsible for foreign and domestic financial and treasury operations. From 1989 to 1991, he was Vice President and Treasurer of Tulsa-based Memorex Telex Corporation, a $1.2 billion computer manufacturer, sales and services company, where he also served, from 1986 to 1989, as Memorex Telex's Vice President of Finance. Prior to this, he was Vice President of Finance from 1974 to 1986 at Lummus Crest, a $95 million Tulsa, Oklahoma-based petroleum engineering, design and construction management company.

Murphy received his B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Tulsa in 1968 and became a CPA in 1971.
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