[Imaging Resource] Olympus: Woodford quits board, as panel prepares report

Michael Woodford, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Japan's Olympus Corp. has now resigned his non-representative position on the company's board, according to a report today from press agency Reuters. Company Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori, and corporate auditor Hideo Yamada all resigned from the board last week. All three men had previously stepped down from their management roles in the company. Woodford had previously been stripped of his other roles at the company, after launching an investigation into Olympus' 2008 purchase of a...
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