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Rod L. Bussell is a vice president of Caterpillar Inc. and general manager of the Mining & Construction Equipment Division. In that role, he has responsibility for the design, development and production of Caterpillar's extensive line of mining trucks, motor graders and scrapers.
Bussell joined the company in 1974 in data processing and served in a number of quality management positions at facilities in Iowa and Illinois before being named manufacturing engineering manager at Caterpillar's Joliet, Ill., facility in 1985. He served as the Caterpillar Brasil manufacturing manager in from 1988 to 1991 and then returned to the Joliet facility as the component group manager, responsible for fabrications.
In 1992, Bussell was named manager of Caterpillar's Transmission Business Unit in East Peoria, Ill. He served in that position until 1998 when he became general manager of Caterpillar's Large Engines Center in Lafayette, Ind. He was elected a company vice president and general manager of the Mining & Construction Equipment Division in 2001.
Bussell is a graduate of University of Illinois and has completed the Caterpillar Advanced Management Program and a Columbia University executive program. He serves as trustee for Millikin University, Decatur, Ill.; and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Decatur, Ill. Chamber of Commerce and the Decatur/Macon County Community Foundation. He also is a member of the Decatur, We Like It Here Committee. | 