Ingersoll Rand Names Janet Pfeffer Vice President, Business Development and Investor Relations

Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE:IR) today announced that Janet Pfeffer has assumed responsibility for investor relations at Ingersoll Rand and has been named vice president, business development and investor relations, effective immediately.

Pfeffer assumed responsibility for investor relations from Bruce Fisher, vice president of investor relations, who is retiring on July 31, 2010.

Pfeffer was appointed vice president, strategy and business development for Ingersoll Rand in February 2010. She joined Ingersoll Rand in 2007 as the vice president, finance for the company's Industrial Technologies Sector.

Prior to joining Ingersoll Rand, Pfeffer worked at United Technologies Corporation, most recently as vice president, Finance, Security Americas and director, Financial Planning & Analysis at UTC Fire & Security. Before that she held a variety of finance and business development leadership roles at Otis Elevator, Pratt & Whitney and UTC Corporate Headquarters.

Pfeffer earned a bachelor of arts degree from Southern Methodist University and a masters of business administration from Boston University.

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