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Beckhoff appoints Harris president

Beckhoff has appointed Graham Harris as president of Beckhoff Automation LLC.

Jun 30, 2003

Formerly VP of sales and marketing, Harris joined Beckhoff in 2002 from Rockwell Automation where he was responsible for their distributed I/O business. Bob Trask was also hired as a regional application engineer; Matt Lecheler has joined the Minneapolis-based technical support team; and Michele Beers was hired to the customer service team.

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