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Christopher C. Curfman is a vice president of Caterpillar and president of the Global Mining Division. This division has enterprise accountability for Caterpillar's worldwide mining business, including the underground segment served by Caterpillar Elphinstone.
In his most recent position prior to being named vice president, Curfman served as alliance manager in Caterpillar's Global Mining Division. In this role he was responsible for building the company's business relationships with large mining customers.
Curfman began his career as a sales coordinator for Wallace Machinery, then a Caterpillar dealer in Oxnard, Calif. He went on to a 15-year career at Deere & Company beginning in 1979. He started as a Deere machine sales representative in Texas and became a district sales representative in Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand in 1981. In 1983, he returned to the U.S. to become market development manager for Deere's Track-Type Tractors Division in Denver, Colo. In 1984, he assumed the general manager role for Mega Equipment Company, a Deere & Co. store in Dallas, Texas. He became the company's division sales manager in Baltimore in 1985 and then president/general manager of Equipment Remarketing Services for Deere in Moline, Ill.
He joined Caterpillar in 1994, serving as the rental and used equipment/attachment manager in the company's North American Commercial Division (NACD). He went on to become general manager of NACD's Western region. In 1999, he became the managing director of Caterpillar of Australia Ltd., based in Melbourne. In 2001, he became managing director of Marketing for Caterpillar's Asia-Pacific Division at its headquarters in Singapore. He returned to the U.S. in August 2004 to assume his current role in Global Mining.
Curfman graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education in 1975. He completed certificate programs in accounting and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 and a three-year Executive Program from Louisiana State University in 1991. In 2002, he completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program. | 