ACG WI: Blake Moret, CEO, Rockwell Automation

Event Details

When:

March 11, 2022 7:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Where:

Location Name

Italian Community Center

Location Address

631 East Chicago Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
United States

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Speakers

Blake Moret

Rockwell Automation

Chairman & CEO

Blake Moret is Chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation. As CEO, Blake is dedicated to delivering the company’s strategy to bring the Connected Enterprise to life. Under his leadership, Rockwell Automation integrates control and information to help make industrial companies and their people more productive and the world more sustainable. Blake is accelerating the Rockwell Automation strategy by focusing on understanding customer needs and their best opportunities for productivity, combining our technology and domain expertise to deliver positive business outcomes, and simplifying our customers’ experience. Key to this strategy is Rockwell’s culture, the foundation for the company’s accelerated profitable growth.

Joining Rockwell Automation in 1985 as a sales trainee, Blake has built his career with the company and has held leadership positions in many areas of the business, including international assignments in Europe and Canada. In his previous role, Blake served as Senior Vice President of Control Products and Solutions, one of the company’s two business segments. Blake became CEO on July 1, 2016 and was elected Chairman of the Board effective January 1, 2018. He is passionate about workforce development and creating a diverse worldwide team of employees that can and want to do their best work.

Blake serves on the PTC, Inc. Board of Directors, the Executive Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and is a member of the Business Roundtable. He also serves on the board of the Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) and the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.

Blake is Chairman of the Rockwell Automation Charitable Corporation and is on the boards of FIRST Robotics, the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha, and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee.

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Blake graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He and his wife Cheryl have four children.

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This event is for ACG members, their guests, and prospective members.

Please contact ACG Wisconsin to register.

Note: Non-member registrations will be reviewed to ensure registration is with or sponsored by an ACG Wisconsin member.

Program Fees

ACG Wisconsin Members	Complimentary
ACG Wisconsin Member Substitute	Complimentary – Please contact ACG WI to register.
ACG WI NextGen Member	Up to 2 complimentary meetings per program year
ACG Member of Another Chapter	$35
Guest of an ACG WI Member	$35 (Must be registered by the ACG WI member)
Prospective Member	Complimentary – Please contact ACG WI to register.
Service Members-in-Waiting	$25, in addition, you must attend with a prospective corporate member Please contact ACG WI to register.