Joe Loughrey

President and Chief Operating Officer, Cummins Inc.

Joe Loughrey has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Cummins Inc., the world’s largest independent diesel engine manufacturer, since May 2005.

Loughrey, who also serves on the Company’s Board of Directors and on the Board of the Cummins Foundation, joined Cummins in 1974 and spent his first 10 years in the Human Resources and International organizations. From there, he moved to the role of Managing Director of the turbocharger maker Holset Engineering Company headquartered in England now known as Cummins Turbo Technologies

He was named a Vice President in 1986 with a focus on employee relations, was transferred lead to the Heavy Duty Engine business in 1987 and later was Group Vice President for Worldwide Operations. He served as Chief Technical Officer and Group President - Industrial Engine Business from 1996 to 1999. He was named President of the Engine Business in 1999, a position he held until assuming his current role.

Throughout his career at Cummins, Loughrey has championed a disciplined culture in which employees work together to create common tools and processes to solve complex business challenges.

He was the driving force behind the development of the Cummins Operating System, a set of 10 practices designed to drive consistency and a strong customer focus throughout the company, and has played a key leadership role in Cummins’ success with Six Sigma in the past several years.

Part of Loughrey’s legacy will be his leadership in restoring the Company’s Engine Business to profitability in the early part of this decade. He took a business that was losing $100 million annually and helped turn it into an operation that in recent years has set Company records for profitability.

During Loughrey’s career, Cummins - based in Columbus, Indiana - has grown into a Fortune 250 company with operations around the world. Cummins, which has enjoyed record financial results each of the past four years, currently employs nearly 40,000 people worldwide and does business in more than 150 countries.

Loughrey is a native of Holyoke, Mass., where he was the oldest of eight children. He is a 1971 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and African studies.

He began his work career as President of AIESEC – U. S. Inc., an organization dedicated to developing international understanding and cooperation through locating management-oriented internship opportunities for students in over 60 countries. In fact, Loughrey first heard of Cummins while President of AIESEC – U.S., through the organization’s work with the Cummins Foundation.

Along with his responsibilities at Cummins, Loughrey is recognized as a leading proponent of advanced manufacturing, both in Indiana and nationally. He serves on The Board of Trustees (Chairman 2005-2007) of The Manufacturing Institute, the educational arm of the National Association of Manufacturers on whose Board he also sits, as well as Chairman of Conexus Indiana, an organization dedicated to promoting advanced manufacturing and logistics in Indiana.

He also serves on the Board of Sauer-Danfoss Inc, and the Community Education Coalition in Columbus, Indiana; is Vice Chairman of the Advisory Council for the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame and is a Senior Advisory Board Member of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute at the University of Michigan.

His honors include being named to the Irish America Business 100; Distinguished Alumni Honoree for Massachusetts Boys’ State 60th Anniversary; AIESEC Lifetime Achievement Award; Volunteer of the Year – Association of Retarded Citizens; and in 2007 he was given the Achievement Award for Business by the Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. and he received the 2007 Dick Johnson Leadership Award by the March of Dimes. Loughrey was named the Global Business Person of 2007 by the World Trade Club of Indiana and named a ‘Sagamore of the Wabash’ by Governor Mitch Daniels in 2008. He also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2008.

Loughrey and his wife, Debbie, reside in Columbus. Their son, Blair, recently graduated from the Indiana University Medical School in Indianapolis.