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Xylem CEO and Executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Patrick K. Decker is the Xylem's CEO. Xylem has 17,000 employees, of which 42 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Xylem executive team is 26% female and 74% male.
  • 63% of the management team is White.
  • 13% of Xylem management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Patrick K. Decker

President/CEO

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Patrick Decker was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Xylem in March 2014, and he also serves on the Xylem Board of Directors. Xylem is a leading global water technology provider, serving customers in more than 150 countries with innovative solutions to their most complex water challenges. Under Mr. Decker’s leadership, Xylem has completed multiple acquisitions that collectively have expanded the company’s portfolio of smart water infrastructure solutions and advanced data analytics capabilities that are applied in water and critical energy services.

Mr. Decker has also overseen an expansion of Xylem Watermark, the company’s corporate citizenship initiative. In addition to continuing its work to provide safe water resources for many of the world’s most vulnerable communities, Watermark now encompasses an ambitious employee volunteerism component that extends to all of Xylem’s nearly 17,000 colleagues. The company pledged to record 100,000 employee volunteer hours in water-related activities over a three-year period in Xylem communities around the globe.

Mr. Decker joined Xylem from Harsco Corporation, a global industrial services company where he was President and CEO since 2012. Prior to that, he served in several leadership roles at Tyco International, including President of Tyco Flow Control, where he grew revenue significantly in emerging markets and executed the company’s largest acquisitions in Brazil and the Middle East.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Decker held progressively responsible financial leadership positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, including nine years in Latin America and Asia. He started his career with Price Waterhouse LLP.

Mr. Decker serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Executive Council on Infrastructure, the Infrastructure Committee for the U.S. Business Roundtable, as well as the advisory council for the Dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Sandra E. Rowland

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Sandra Rowland is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Reporting to Xylem President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Decker, she leads 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.

David Flinton

Senior Vice President

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John A. Kehoe

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer

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Enterprise Executive with worldwide responsibility for Information Technology.

Strong Merger and Acquisition background.

Extensive business planning, restructuring and consolidations background

Strong operational experience within the Aerospace and Defense and Manufacturing industries.

Strategic Planner with a diverse background of increasingly more complex roles.

Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain management experience.

Oil industry background, including international experience.

Agile and Adaptable to changing business situations, routinely leveraged to turn around product delivery and increase revenue generation.

Specialties:

• Executive Chief Information Officer Leadership Experience

• Business Leadership, including direct P&L of 200M+ group

• Business Modernization & Transformation

• Strategic Planning

• Enterprise Strategy & Architecture

• Outsourced Services Mgt

• Application & Infrastructure Mgt

• Program & Project Mgt

• Business Continuity & Business Recovery

• International Leadership assignments, including a 3 year business relocation to Japan

• Extensive Governance & Risk Management acumen

• Leader of Lean, ITIL & Six Sigma groups

Anthony V. Milando

Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer

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Senior Executive at a globally diversified industrial products company. Broad range of operational, M&A and organic growth experience delivering significant results. Demonstrated the ability to build solid strategic plans, develop strong organizations, implement measurable operational processes, and most importantly, lead teams to improved performance. Also possess strong/deep financial background where I’ve held senior-most finance roles at the business unit and regional levels.

Claudia S. Toussaint Esq

Senior Vice President

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Albert H. Cho

SVP, Chief Strategy and Digital Officer

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Albert Cho is Chief Strategy and 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, 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.

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.

Dorothy Capers

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

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Hayati Yarkadas

Senior Vice President

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Matthew Pine

Senior Vice President

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Patrick K. Decker

President/CEO

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Patrick Decker was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Xylem in March 2014, and he also serves on the Xylem Board of Directors. Xylem is a leading global water technology provider, serving customers in more than 150 countries with innovative solutions to their most complex water challenges. Under Mr. Decker’s leadership, Xylem has completed multiple acquisitions that collectively have expanded the company’s portfolio of smart water infrastructure solutions and advanced data analytics capabilities that are applied in water and critical energy services.

Mr. Decker has also overseen an expansion of Xylem Watermark, the company’s corporate citizenship initiative. In addition to continuing its work to provide safe water resources for many of the world’s most vulnerable communities, Watermark now encompasses an ambitious employee volunteerism component that extends to all of Xylem’s nearly 17,000 colleagues. The company pledged to record 100,000 employee volunteer hours in water-related activities over a three-year period in Xylem communities around the globe.

Mr. Decker joined Xylem from Harsco Corporation, a global industrial services company where he was President and CEO since 2012. Prior to that, he served in several leadership roles at Tyco International, including President of Tyco Flow Control, where he grew revenue significantly in emerging markets and executed the company’s largest acquisitions in Brazil and the Middle East.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Decker held progressively responsible financial leadership positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, including nine years in Latin America and Asia. He started his career with Price Waterhouse LLP.

Mr. Decker serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Executive Council on Infrastructure, the Infrastructure Committee for the U.S. Business Roundtable, as well as the advisory council for the Dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn

Board Member

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Markos I. Tambakeras

Board Member

Robert F. Friel

Chair

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Steven R. Loranger

Board Member

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Jerome A. Peribere

Board Member

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Lila Alexey Tretikov

Board Member

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Mark D. Morelli

Board Member

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Uday Yadav

Board Member

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Victoria Dux Harker

Board Member

Xylem Leadership Demographics

Xylem Gender Distribution in Management Team

  • The Xylem executive team is 26% female and 74% male.
  • Xylem is 24% female and 76% male company-wide.
Male
Male
74%
Company-wide: 76%
Female
Female
26%
Company-wide: 24%

Xylem Executives by Race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Xylem executive officers is White.
  • 63% of the management team is White.
  • 13% of Xylem's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 59% of employees are White.
  • 15% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of employees are Black or African American.
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