HARMAN Names Raj Sharma as Vice President, Automotive Customer Business Unit
STAMFORD, CT –– Harman International Industries, Incorporated, the leading global audio and infotainment group (NYSE: HAR) today announced that Raj Sharma will be joining Harman as Vice President, Customer Business Unit, effective October 20, 2014. He will report directly to Sachin Lawande, Executive Vice President and President, Infotainment and will be based in HARMAN’s Farmington Hills, Michigan, offices.
Sharma will join HARMAN after 11 years at Panasonic Automotive Systems, where he held a variety of senior sales and program management roles, most recently as Vice President for the OEM Customer Business Group. Earlier in his career, Sharma spent 13 years at General Motors. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.
““With a strong track record in the sector and tremendous automotive depth, Raj will be instrumental in driving growth, maximizing infotainment, audio, system & services and other Harman offerings, while building a long term partnership with our customers globally,” said Lawande. “We are very pleased to welcome Raj to HARMAN at such an exciting time of innovation.”
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HARMAN (www.harman.com) designs, manufactures and markets premier audio, visual, infotainment and integrated control solutions for the automotive, consumer and professional markets. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon® and Mark Levinson ®, the Company is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 16,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $5.3 billion for the twelve months ended June 30, 2014.
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