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Laurent Vernerey President and CEO APC by Schneider Electric |
Laurent Vernerey is president and CEO of APC by Schneider Electric. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and formed the Critical Power and Cooling Services (CPCS) Business Unit, which includes the APC and MGE UPS Systems brands. The CPCS Business Unit reported revenue of $3.5 billion in 2007 and employs 12,000 people worldwide. Schneider Electric, with 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, had 2007 annual sales of $25 billion.
From July 2003 until taking the lead of APC and the Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit in February 2007, Vernerey served as managing director of Schneider Electric’s Pacific Zone, a role he assumed after three years with Schneider Electric’s parent company in France. Most recently, he was senior vice president of manufacturing and logistics.
Vernerey’s senior management experience encompasses the fields of information systems, distribution, administration, sales, purchasing, customer service, and manufacturing.
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Ray C. Anderson Founder and Chairman Interface, Inc. |
The story is now legend; the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision. Fourteen years and a sea change later, Interface, Inc., is nearly 50 percent to its target of “Mission Zero,” the journey no one would have imagined for the company or the petroleum-intensive industry of carpet manufacturing, which has been forever changed by Ray’s vision. The once captain of industry has eschewed a luxury car for a Prius and built an off-the-grid home, authored a book chronicling his journey titled MidCourse Correction, became an unlikely screen hero in the 2004 Canadian documentary, The Corporation, and was named one of TIME International’s Heroes for the Environment in 2007. He’s a sought-after speaker and advisor on all issues eco, including a stint as cochairman of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
