Diebold, Incorporated announced that the Board of Directors and Charles E. Ducey, Jr. agreed that Mr. Ducey would step down as Executive Vice President, North American Operations, effective immediately. Mychal D. Kempt has been appointed to Vice President, North American Operations, and will be responsible for leading the company's financial self-service operations in the region, including all sales and related customer and sales support infrastructure. He will also lead the company's growing integrated services business in North America.

Mr. Kempt joined the company in 1994 as a regional account manager and has held numerous roles in sales and service management. Most recently, Mr. Kempt served as Vice President of North American Sales and Service Operations, in which he was responsible for leading the North American sales operation in the regional bank and national account segments, as well as the North American services operation, consisting of integrated services, maintenance services, software services and the implementation systems teams.