Oshkosh CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of Oshkosh?

The CEO of Oshkosh is John C. Pfeifer.

Q: Who is the founder of Oshkosh?

Bernhard Mosling and William Besserdich founded Oshkosh.

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Oshkosh CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, John C. Pfeifer is the Oshkosh's CEO. Oshkosh has 16,000 employees, of which 52 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Oshkosh executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
62% of the management team is White.
11% of Oshkosh management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

John C. Pfeifer

President and Chief Executive Officer

John C. Pfeifer was named President & Chief Executive Officer in April of 2021. Pfeifer joined Oshkosh in May 2019 as the head of the company’s Access Equipment, Fire & Emergency and Commercial segments. In May 2020, he was appointed president and assumed responsibility for the company’s defense segment and its global supply chain, digital technology and marketing functions.

Prior to Oshkosh, Pfeifer led Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation that specializes in marine propulsion systems, and held various global business management positions with the ITT Corporation.

Mr. Pfeifer has a bachelor’s degree in economics and Japanese language from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Bernhard Mosling

Founder

William Besserdich

Founder

Frank R. Nerenhausen

Executive Vice President and President

James W. Johnson

Executive Vice President and President

Michael E. Pack

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Michael E Pack is an Exec VP/CFO at OSHKOSH CORP. He has worked as VP:Finance at OSHKOSH CORP and Senior Manager:Audit at GRANT THORNTON LLP. Michael studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bradley M. Nelson

Senior Vice President and President

Stephen D. Newlin

Board Member

Ignacio A. Cortina

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

John J. Bryant

Executive Vice President and President

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Oshkosh founders

Name & TitleBio

Bernhard Mosling

Founder

William Besserdich

Founder

Oshkosh board members

Name & TitleBio

John C. Pfeifer

President and Chief Executive Officer

Stephen D. Newlin

Board Member

John S. Shiely

Board Member

Anupam Khare

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

I lead Oshkosh Digital Technology as a business and drive digital transformation to increase sales, operating income for Oshkosh’s four business units globally. My responsibility includes Industry 4.0 implementation, data science and analytics, infrastructure services, cybersecurity, software development, and enterprise business systems management.

I am a member of the CNBC Technology Executive Council and a member of The Wall Street Journal CIO network. My team won its first CIO100 award in 2019 for innovation.

Oshkosh Corporation is a leading manufacturer and marketer of access equipment, specialty vehicles and truck bodies for the primary markets of access equipment, defense, fire & emergency and municipal, refuse hauling, concrete placement as well as airport services globally.

Douglas L. Davis

Board Member

Duncan John Palmer

Board Member

Keith J. Allman

Board Member

Kimberley Metcalf-Kupres

Board Member

Sandra E. Rowland

Board Member

Tyrone Michael Jordan

Board Member

Oshkosh leadership demographics

Oshkosh gender distribution in management team

The Oshkosh executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
Oshkosh is 26% female and 74% male company-wide.

Male

79%

Company-wide: 74%

Female

21%

Company-wide: 26%

Oshkosh executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Oshkosh executive officers is White.
62% of the management team is White.
14% of Oshkosh's management is Asian.
11% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
73% of employees are White.
9% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
8% of employees are Asian.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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