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Mr. Fisher has been Vice President and Chief Information Officer since November 2007, and has been
Chief Information Officer since July 1999. He has also served as General Manager of Service overseeing all
technical, dealer, and consumer service operations since 2005. Prior to joining Polaris, Mr. Fisher was employed
by MTS Systems for 15 years in various positions in information services, software engineering, control product
development, and general management. Before that time, Mr. Fisher worked as a civil engineer for Anderson-
Nichols and he later joined Autocon Industries, where he developed process control software.
Mr. Homan was appointed Vice President—Europe, Middle East and Africa in August 2011. Prior to this,
Mr. Homan was Vice President of the Off-Road Vehicles Division since August 2008, and was General Manager
of the Side-by-Side Division since December 2005. Mr. Homan joined Polaris in 2002 as Director of Marketing
for the ATV Division. Prior to working at Polaris, Mr. Homan spent nearly seven years at General Mills working
in various marketing and brand management positions.
Mr. Jonikas shifted roles in August 2011 to Vice President—Snowmobiles, Sales and Corporate Marketing.
Mr. Jonikas was Vice President of Sales and Marketing since November 2007 and Vice President—On-Road
Vehicles from May 2009 to August 2011. Mr. Jonikas joined Polaris in 2000, and during the past eleven years
has held several key roles including Director of Product and Marketing Management for the ATV Division and
General Manager of the Polaris Side-by-Side Division. Prior to joining Polaris, Mr. Jonikas spent 12 years at
General Mills in numerous general management positions.
Mr. Krishna joined Polaris Industries Inc. as Vice President—Supply Chain and Integration on March 29,
2010 and was promoted to Vice President—Global Operations and Integration in September 2010. Prior to
joining Polaris, Mr. Krishna was Vice President Global Operations, Supply Chain and IT for a division of United
Technologies Corporation’ Fire & Security business where he was responsible for significant operations in
China, Mexico, United States and Europe from August 2007 to March 2010. Prior to United Technologies
Corporation, Mr. Krishna worked for Diageo, a global producer of famous drink brands, as Vice President
Supply Chain for their North American business from February 2002 to July 2007.
Mr. Longren was appointed Vice President—Off-Road Vehicles and Off-Road Vehicles Engineering in
August 2011. Prior to this, Mr. Longren was Chief Technical Officer since May 2006. Mr. Longren joined
Polaris in January 2003 as the Director of Engineering for the ATV Division. Prior to joining Polaris,
Mr. Longren was a Vice President in the Weapons Systems Division of Alliant Techsystems and Vice President,
Engineering and Marketing at Blount Sporting Equipment Group.
Mr. Swenson shifted roles in February 2012 to Vice President—Small Vehicles. Prior to this,
Mr. Swenson’s leadership also included PG&A since 2001, and Snowmobiles from 2006 to August 2011.
Mr. Swenson joined Polaris in 1998 as Assistant Treasurer. Prior to joining Polaris, Mr. Swenson was employed
in various finance positions at General Electric and Shell Oil Company.
Mr. Williams joined Polaris as Vice President—Human Resources in April 2011. Prior to joining Polaris,
Mr. Williams was Vice President of Human Resources for Cooper Industries, a diversified manufacturing
Company, since 2006. Between 2005 and 2006, Mr. Williams was Vice President of Human Resources for
Danaher Corp. Previous to that, Mr. Williams held various executive positions of increasing responsibility with
Honeywell Inc. from 1995 to 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Williams held a number of posts in Human Resources with
Monsanto and General Motors Corporation.
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