The Cooper Companies
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Senior VP-operations Thomas Bender named executive vice president and acting chief operating officer. In the latter position, he will assume the duties of current COO Steven Singer, who is on a leave of absence. Singer is among the defendants named in a civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in November 1992 alleging participation in an illegal junk bond trading scheme ("The Gray Sheet" Nov. 16, 1992, p. 16). Also elected to the company's board of directors, Bender will continue to serve as president and chief executive officer for the company's contact lens subsidiary CooperVision, positions he has held since 1991