Kristen is Vice President of Strategy at Schneider Electric in the UK and Ireland. She joined Schneider in 2023, bringing experience working in Strategy and Product Development with government, utilities, and digital starts ups on the Energy Transition. She currently leads internal strategy, government affairs, and partnerships for the UK & Ireland with a particular focus on the New Energy Landscape, supporting energy providers and consumers in their journeys towards sustainability, resilience, and efficiency.

Kristin leads the Industrial and Process Automation business across the UK and Ireland. She’s responsible for driving the growth transformation strategy across the business building on our strong product position in the market and accelerating our segment, software and service initiatives. During her 12 years at Schneider Electric Kristin has held a number of roles across the business. She started in Corporate Strategy working on key enterprise strategies for the group like IoT, Analytics, Software Business Models and Cybersecurity. In 2015 she joined the UK Digital Energy team and has held several operational roles in segment marketing, operational strategy and digital services. She most recently led Digital Buildings for Europe Operations. Prior to her time at Schneider Electric, she worked in IT Consulting for Cerner Corporation (now Oracle) designing and implementing healthcare information systems in the US, UK and UAE. Kristin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from The University of Iowa and a MBA with a focus on strategy and energy from HEC Paris. She is a STEM volunteer and is passionate about digital transformation and the use of technology to solve problems.

Kristin leads Schneider Electric’s Global Marketing and Sales Excellence team in the United Kingdom and Ireland (UK&I). In this role she brings together several interlinked functions including Marketing, the Data Office, Sales Excellence and Remote Sales to ensure a cohesive go to market strategy and alignment to maximise our opportunities for growth with key customers and segments, as well as software and services. Under Kristin, the new team’s mission is to better support its commercial teams through proactive data analytics, optimisation of sales coverage models, and investigation into synergies and collaboration opportunities between digital, virtual and face to face channels in addition to deliver a seamless marketing communication, and digital customer relationship experience.  Kristin sits on the UK&I executive committee.  She began her career via an international talent development program within Schneider Electric, moving to the UK to take on both channel and offer marketing roles in 2006. A few years later, Kristin returned to the US and took responsibility for the successful business transformation and integration of North American customer care operations, as well as numerous continuous improvement initiatives aimed at delivering an exceptional digital customer experience. Over the past 15 years, she has held several roles, enabling her to build valuable knowledge and leadership in digital and commercial pricing transformation, as well as a strong customer focus from her roles in commercial marketing for the UK&I distribution channel and transactional businesses. Prior to taking on this current role in March 2024, she was VP Customer Operations for the UK&I. Kristin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in International Marketing from the University of Georgia. She is currently a member of CBI's Manufacturing Council and serves on the Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub Industry Advisory Group.