Pat Wilkinson

Currently Vice President and Head of the Siemens North American Energy Automation businesses, Pat has spent the last 20 years in regional and global leadership roles in the energy industry. His focus is on collaborating with customers along the energy value chain to better understand and resolve their emerging challenges through the deployment of innovative protection, control, and automation technology. Pat started his career in Operations at the Ford Motor Company before joining ABB where, based out of the US and Switzerland, he led a variety of teams in the Power Products and Power Systems divisions. Pat is a past board member of the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster and a graduate of both Duke University and the Indiana University Graduate School of Business.