Arctic Cat Hires Christopher J. Eperjesy as Chief Financial Officer

Arctic Cat Inc. (NASDAQ:ACAT) has announced that Christopher J. Eperjesy, 47, will join the company as chief financial officer, effective February 16, 2015.

Eperjesy brings 25 years of finance experience to his new role with Arctic Cat, including serving the past 12 years as CFO of a public company. Eperjesy succeeds Timothy Delmore, who retired at the end of December, as planned.

Commented Christopher T. Metz, Arctic Cat’s president and CEO: “Chris is a proven corporate finance leader with deep manufacturing and international experience in the power equipment and automotive industries, as well as retail. He also has a strong background in mergers and acquisitions, which is a new strategic focus for Arctic Cat, as we seek small, bolt-on acquisitions that can expand our capabilities and revenues.”

Since 2002, Eperjesy has been chief financial officer, vice president of finance and treasurer, at Twin Disc Inc., a publicly held company headquartered in Racine, Wis. Prior to Twin Disc, Eperjesy served as a divisional vice president of corporate finance for Kmart from 2001 to 2002, where he helped build the company’s financial planning and analysis capability.

Before that, he spent six years with the Chrysler Corporation/DaimlerChrysler AG.

He began his career as an accountant, spending five years with Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, in the firm’s Detroit and Germany offices.

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