Alain Dedieu is president of the water waste water segment within Industrial Automation Business.
Develops and lead the strategic growth vision of the water segment for more sustainability, efficiency and resilience based on the deployment of EcoStruxure platform for Smart water.
Alain has a rich experience in automation and digitization integration in manufacturing industry driving business and technology adoption globally. He has been leading for the last 3 years the strategy of the Industrial Automation Business. Based in Asia for the last 10 years, after a stay in US he also gain a global experience and knowledge of the different markets around the world.
Formerly, he was Senior Vice President of Industrial Control and Drives domain with responsibility for building and deploying worldwide strategy, offer roadmap for HMI and Variable speed drives technology based in Shanghai where he was responsible also responsible of the Automation China, a program relative to Industry and “smart factory “development.
He began his career as Automation and Drives sales. Then he joined the drives activity and held various positions in marketing and offer management and was nominated Drives Activity VP. Alain joined the management team of the Industrial Control Business unit to held various operational positions before joining the North America management team and held the position of Automation & Control Marketing Vice President, based in Chicago Illinois.
Alain is graduated from Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics de Paris – France - Master degree in electronics and electric engineering.