John N. Lauer, 67, was appointed non-executive chairman of the board for Diebold, Incorporated in December 2005. He is former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Oglebay Norton Company, Cleveland, an aggregates and industrial minerals firm. He was elected to Diebold’s board of directors in 1992. Prior to Oglebay, Lauer served as president and chief operating officer of the B.F. Goodrich Company.
He serves on the boards of the University of Maryland Foundation, Visiting Nurse Association of Northern Ohio, Opera Cleveland, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation.
Lauer received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s degree in business administration from Texas A&M University, Kingsville. |