Emerson Electric (St. Louis): Craig Ashmore was named as executive vice president. He has been senior vice president for planning and development since 2004. In October 2007,, he was named a member of Emerson's Office of Chief Executive, the company's top management team that sets global strategy. Ashmore's duties, which will remain the same, include managing Emerson's strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate technology functions, as well as leadership of Emerson Network Power's connectivity solutions business. Ashmore is a member of the board of NEMA, and holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical and civil engineering at the University of Connecticut and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.