Flowserve Corporation (NYSE: FLS), a leading provider of flow control
products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today
announced the creation of the "Office of the CFO” to oversee chief
financial officer responsibilities. Flowserve President and Chief
Executive Officer Mark A. Blinn served previously as CFO before being
named to his President and Chief Executive Officer position on October
1, 2009.
The Office of the CFO is composed of Richard J. Guiltinan, vice
president finance and chief accounting officer, and Dean P. Freeman,
vice president finance and treasurer. In addition to his current role,
Guiltinan is designated principal financial officer for SEC reporting
purposes and assumes new corporate tax oversight responsibilities.
Freeman maintains his treasurer role and assumes new financial planning
and analysis (FP&A) and investor relations oversight responsibilities.
"I believe the decision to divide the CFO responsibilities between Dick
and Dean will benefit Flowserve by leveraging their strengths,
capabilities and experiences,” said Blinn. "The Office of the CFO allows
these two individuals, working together, to provide leadership and
direction to the organization into the future.”
Guiltinan joined Flowserve in 2004 and was instrumental in the company’s
successful accounting restatement completion efforts. He served
previously as chief financial officer for Caltex Corporation, a joint
venture between Chevron and Texaco. Freeman came to Flowserve in 2006 as
vice president of finance for the Flowserve Pump Division and moved to
the treasurer role in May 2009. Prior to Flowserve, he served as chief
financial officer, European operations, for Stanley Works Corporation.
About Flowserve Corp.
Flowserve Corp. is one of the world’s leading providers of fluid motion
and control products and services. Operating in more than 55 countries,
the company produces engineered and industrial pumps, seals and valves
as well as a range of related flow management services. More information
about Flowserve can be obtained by visiting the company’s Web site at www.flowserve.com.
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uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from what is
forecast in such forward-looking statements, and include, without
limitation, the following: a portion of our bookings may not lead to
completed sales, and our ability to convert bookings into revenues at
acceptable profit margins; our dependence on our customers’ ability to
make required capital investment and maintenance expenditures; the
highly competitive nature of the markets in which we operate; risks
associated with cost overruns on fixed-fee projects and in taking
customer orders for large complex custom engineered products requiring
sophisticated program management skills and technical expertise for
completion; the substantial dependence of our sales on the success of
the petroleum, chemical, power and water industries; the adverse impact
of volatile raw materials prices on our products and operating margins;
economic, political and other risks associated with our international
operations, including military actions or trade embargoes that could
affect customer markets, particularly Middle Eastern markets and global
petroleum producers, and non-compliance with U.S. export/re-export
control, foreign corrupt practice laws, economic sanctions and import
laws and regulations; our furnishing of products and services to nuclear
power plant facilities; potential adverse consequences resulting from
litigation to which we are a party, such as litigation involving
asbestos-containing material claims; a foreign government investigation
regarding our participation in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program;
risks associated with certain of our foreign subsidiaries conducting
business operations and sales in certain countries that have been
identified by the U.S. State Department as state sponsors of terrorism;
our relative geographical profitability and its impact on our
utilization of deferred tax assets, including foreign tax credits, and
tax liabilities that could result from audits of our tax returns by
regulatory authorities in various tax jurisdictions; the potential
adverse impact of an impairment in the carrying value of goodwill or
other intangibles; our dependence upon third-party suppliers whose
failure to perform timely could adversely affect our business
operations; changes in the global financial markets and the availability
of capital; environmental compliance costs and liabilities; potential
work stoppages and other labor matters; our inability to protect our
intellectual property in the U.S., as well as in foreign countries;
obligations under our defined benefit pension plans; and other factors
described from time to time in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
All forward-looking statements included in this news release are based
on information available to us on the date hereof, and we assume no
obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
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