John Harker
John V. Harker is the former chairman of the InFocus corporation located in Wilsonville, Oregon. He had been the president and CEO of the company since 1992 before Kyle Ranson took his place on September 1, 2004. He resigned as chairman on December 1, 2005. Business life John Harker started work at InFocus in 1992 and has transformed the company from being a small startup selling business projectors to a thriving business with many display products. Products that have been developed under his leadership include a variety of business projectors as well as home theatre projection and DLP Rear Projection televisions. John Harker served a variety of roles before coming to work with the InFocus corporation. He was an Executive Vice President at GENICOM Corporation (1984–1992), the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at Dataproducts Corporation (1982–1984), the Vice President of Booz, Allen, and Hamilton (1979–1982), and as a manager at IBM (1963–1979). Currently, the combined salary and benefits package for Mr. Harker is about $841,000 per year. This makes him the highest paid person at the InFocus Corporation. Community service John Harker currently chairs the Business Advisory Council at the school of business administration at Portland State