Please wait

Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers and directors of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., an Ohio corporation (“Registrant”), hereby constitutes and appoints Vincent K. Petrella and Frederick G. Stueber, and each of them, as true and lawful attorney or attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, to sign on his or her behalf as an officer or director of the Registrant a Registration Statement or Registration Statements on Form S-8 pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 concerning Common Shares of the Company to be offered in connection with the Registrant’s 2015 Equity and Incentive Compensation Plan and/or 2015 Stock Plan for Non-Employee Directors, and to sign any and all amendments or post-effective amendments to such Registration Statement(s), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state regulatory authority, granting unto said attorney or attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original with respect to the person executing it.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of the 23rd day of April, 2015.

 

/s/ Christopher L. Mapes

/s/ Kathryn Jo Lincoln

Christopher L. Mapes

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

(principal executive officer)

Kathryn Jo Lincoln

Director

/s/ Vincent K. Petrella

/s/ William E. MacDonald III

Vincent K. Petrella

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (principal financial and accounting officer)

William E. MacDonald III

Director

/s/ Curtis E. Espeland

/s/ Phillip J. Mason

Curtis E. Espeland

Director

Phillip J. Mason

Director

/s/ David H. Gunning

/s/ Hellene S. Runtagh

David H. Gunning

Director

Hellene S. Runtagh

Director

/s/ Stephen G. Hanks

/s/ George H. Walls, Jr.

Stephen G. Hanks

Director

George H. Walls, Jr.

Director

/s/ G. Russell Lincoln

G. Russell Lincoln

Director