28 Results for "Sustainability"

• Strategic Planning Committee, Co-Chair
• Audit Committee
• Compensation and Management Development Committee
• Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Mr. Capparelli has served as Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee since May 2023 and as a director of the Company since April 2022. Mr. Capparelli also serves as the Vice President and General Manager, Lifecycle Global Regions of Rockwell Automation, Inc., an industrial automation and digital transformation company, which is included within the S&P 500 Index, and serves as an advisory board member of the Industrial Equipment Advisory Board of Technology and Service Industry Association. Mr. Capparelli previously served as Rockwell Automation President, Americas Region from October 2020 to January 2022 and President, Latin America Region from 2016 to September 2020. Prior to such time, Mr. Capparelli held numerous roles of increasing responsibility at leading sales, engineering and services businesses, and his experience includes strategy development and execution, risk management, financial management, go-to-market evolution, marketing, operations, and customer support organization. Mr. Capparelli holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina), and a Post Graduate degree in Business Management and Strategy from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.

Mr. Capparelli’s qualifications to serve as a director include his many years of international, executive leadership experience in industrial automation and digital transformation including smart manufacturing, IOT and Industry 4.0 across multiples customer segments and industries. Mr. Capparelli’s leadership in the creation and development of strategies that achieve business outcomes combining technology and domain expertise to maximize productivity, safety and sustainability of business investment in critical areas, including digital engineering, connected operations, analytics, cybersecurity and automation make him a valuable member to our Board. Also, Mr. Capparelli’s qualifications include his experience leading efforts in the expansion of the culture of diversity and inclusion as well the organizational involvement with the communities in which companies operate. Furthermore, the Board benefits from his insight into key geographic markets served by the Company, and his successful track record overseeing business development and the implementation of strategic growth initiatives in these markets, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

• Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Chair
• Audit Committee
• Compensation and Management Development Committee
• Strategic Planning Committee

Mr. McDonnell has served as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since May 2022 and as a director of the Company since October 2012. Mr. McDonnell also serves as the President of the University of Maine at Farmington. In addition, Mr. McDonnell previously served as a Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Southern Maine’s Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, where he lectured on organizational leadership, crisis and risk management, and argumentation, advocacy, and governance, among other subjects, and as a Founding Director, Faculty Fellow and member of the board of the University of Southern Maine’s Confucius Institute. Mr. McDonnell previously served in several leadership positions in the academic and private sectors including: (i) Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and as Dean of the College of Management and Human Service, each position at the University of Southern Maine; (ii) Interim Dean of the College of Business at Stony Brook University; (iii) President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York International Commerce Group, Inc., which provides services for companies doing business in China; and (iv) Senior Vice President at the Long Island Lighting Company, a large gas and electric utility company. Mr. McDonnell holds an Executive Program Certificate from Harvard Business School, a PhD in Communications from the University of Southern California, and an MA and BA from Stony Brook University.

Mr. McDonnell’s qualifications to serve as a director include his significant experience in academia teaching and publishing articles on business administration, strategy, workforce development, crisis and risk management, and the development of management-level personnel, as well as his various leadership positions at foreign and domestic companies. Mr. McDonnell also has significant experience in sustainability matters leading a multi-million dollar initiative at the University of Maine at Farmington to increase energy efficiency and eliminate the use of fossil fuels on campus. Additionally, Mr. McDonnell has extensive knowledge of Chinese business and culture having lectured, published articles, and developed academic programs focused on China for more than twenty years, including founding a Confucius Institute at the University of Southern Maine. His research on the globalization and digitization of the economy, and complex trade relationships among the United States, Europe and China provide a unique perspective in these areas and enhance the Board’s understanding of the risks the Company faces due to its global operations.