Joanne M. Linden is a prominent finance executive and independent corporate director with extensive expertise in accounting, auditing, financial reporting, and corporate governance. She currently serves as an independent director on the board of Cognex Corporation, a leading provider of machine vision products, since 2014. In this role, she chairs the Audit Committee and serves on the Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees, leveraging her deep knowledge to oversee financial integrity, risk management, and strategic direction. Linden built her career over more than three decades at Deloitte & Touche LLP, joining the firm in 1982 and advancing to partner in 1993, where she specialized in audit and enterprise risk services before retiring in 2013. A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics (concentration in accounting), she is known for her commitment to ethical governance and has no publicly documented controversies or legal issues.