Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), Dublin, OH, elected J. Michael Losh as an independent director, effective in early December. Losh will serve as the chairman of the board of directors’ audit committee, the company said.

Losh served as a director of Cardinal Health from 1996 through the spin-off of CareFusion Corporation in 2009, and as presiding director at CareFusion until its acquisition by Becton Dickinson in 2015.  He was executive vice president and chief financial officer of General Motors Corp. from 1994 until 2000, and spent 36 years in various capacities with GM, including global manufacturing, operations, supply chain management and organizational design. He also served as interim chief financial officer for Cardinal Health from July 2004 through May 2005.