F.B. Leopold Leadership

Albert Cho is Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer at Xylem. In this role, he is responsible for driving Xylem’s efforts to digitize water infrastructure, as well as the continued development of strategies to achieve our vision and create social and economic value. Previously, Mr. Cho served as General Manager of Xylem’s Advanced Infrastructure Analytics business. Prior to that, he led Xylem’s strategy and mergers and acquisitions teams.

Before joining Xylem, Mr. Cho worked as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the State Department, where he was a White House Fellow and served on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. He has also been an executive at Cisco Systems, worked at McKinsey & Company, and worked at the United Nations on a global plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Mr. Cho serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Water Alliance and the Canadian Water Network, and on the Programme Committee for Singapore International Water Week. He is also an Honorary Research Associate of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mr. Cho earned Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies summa cum laude from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Development Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MBA with distinction from Said Business School at the University of Oxford.

Tony Milando joined Xylem in 2015. In this role, he is responsible for driving operational excellence and process simplification across the organization. His key focus areas include building the vision and roadmap for the Company’s continuous improvement initiatives, implementing robust tools and measurement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma, and leading the Company toward best-in-class status in operations, procurement and supply chain.

Prior to his current role Mr. Milando held several senior executive roles at the Stanley Black & Decker Corporation, including Vice President Corporate Growth and Vice President, Global Operations. Prior to that, he served in a series of increasingly responsible leadership roles in the consumer and industrial businesses for the Black & Decker Corporation prior to its merger with Stanley Works, including Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Vice President, Global Sourcing.

Mr. Milando received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Business Administration from Towson University in Maryland and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from Loyola University Maryland.

Claudia Toussaint is Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources and Sustainability Officer. In this role since 2021, she is responsible for leading the global human resources function at Xylem, as well as the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach.

Ms. Toussaint joined Xylem in 2014 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, serving in that capacity until 2021. In 2019, Xylem expanded its sustainability strategy based on new 2025 goals that advance sustainability through its customer solutions that clean and manage water, its company practices, and its humanitarian efforts for communities around the world.

Prior to joining Xylem in 2014, Ms. Toussaint served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Barnes Group Inc., an international industrial and aerospace manufacturer and service provider. She also served as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics Officer for Embarq Corporation, a telecommunications company that was spun-off from Sprint Nextel. Previously, she held several positions of increasing responsibility at Sprint Nextel's predecessor companies. She started her career as an attorney at Morrison & Forrester LLP, an international law firm.

Ms. Toussaint serves on the UCLA Advisory Board for Social Sciences as well as the Selection Committee for the UCLA William Sharpe Fellows Program. Ms. Toussaint also serves on the Alumni Association Board of Governors for UC Hastings Law.

In 2020, she was named to media organization City & State’s Above & Beyond list, recognizing women in the public sector who have made notable contributions to society. Ms. Toussaint was recognized with a 2017 Innovative Leader’s Award for General Counsel by Women, Influence & Power in Law, and a 2017 Top General Counsel award by First Chair for significant contributions to the legal community. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Juris Doctor degree from UC Hastings Law, in San Francisco.

David Flinton is Chief Innovation, Technology & Product Management Officer. In this role, he is responsible for leading the company’s global technology and innovation activities as well as for managing the entire lifecycle of our offerings. His organization plays a critical role in ensuring Xylem develops advanced technologies and disruptive innovations that will create value for customers, and commercializes them rapidly and effectively.

Previously, Mr. Flinton served as Senior Vice President and President of Xylem’s dewatering business. Before that he held the position of Vice President, Engineering and Marketing for Xylem’s Applied Water Systems (AWS) division since 2013, where he was responsible for the Company’s three AWS business units, as well as marketing communications, business intelligence, engineering services, innovation and technology, and e-business. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President, Global Product Management for AWS and Vice President, Strategy and IMS for the Company’s former Water Solutions division in Sundbyberg, Sweden. Mr. Flinton joined ITT in 1997 and spent 10 years in a series of increasingly responsible positions in the company’s Industrial Products group. Before joining the company, he held various engineering positions for Procter & Gamble and Werner Pump.

Mr. Flinton earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA, and an MBA from the University Of Rochester William E. Simon School Of Business.

John Kehoe was named Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Xylem in September 2018. In this role, he is responsible for leading the Company's global information technology organization.

Most recently Mr. Kehoe served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Valmont Industries, a leading producer and distributor of products and services for the infrastructure and agricultural markets. In this role he managed the global information technology organization. Before that, he worked at Rockwell Collins, an avionics and information technology systems and services provider for commercial and military customers, where he was a Senior IT Executive for IT Shared Services, managing a wide portfolio of global enterprise services.

Earlier in Mr. Kehoe’s career, he held senior leadership roles at L-3 Vertex Aerospace and at Raytheon Aircraft. He served in the U.S. Air Force in multiple roles and countries, including the first Gulf War conflict.

Mr. Kehoe received his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems at Friend University in Wichita, Kansas and his Master of Business Administration from Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi.

Sandra Rowland is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In this role, she is responsible for leading the Company's global finance organization.

Previously, Ms. Rowland served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Harman International Industries Inc. from January 2015 to August 2020. Harman is an $8.6 billion leader in the design and engineering of electronic and audio products, connected solutions and automated systems for enterprise, automotive and consumer markets. Prior to this role, Ms. Rowland was the Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations, from 2013 to 2014 and Vice President, Investor Relations of Harman, from 2012 to 2013.

Before joining Harman, Ms. Rowland held various positions of increasing responsibility in accounting and finance at Eastman Kodak Company where she worked from 2000 to 2012. She also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1993 to 2000.

Ms. Rowland is a member of the Board of Directors and Audit and Human Resources Committees of industrial manufacturer Oshkosh Corporation. She earned an MBA degree from William E. Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Business from Lafayette College in Easton, PA.