NAME SURNAME JOB TITLE , COMPANY NAME

ROB MCKERNAN , SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT , SECURE POWER EUROPE , SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Can you tell me about Schneider Electric ?

Schneider Electric is the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation and the world ’ s most sustainable corporation in 2021 as ranked by Corporate Knights . As a business , we enable digital transformation across several key sectors including data centres , infrastructure , and industries . We do this by integrating world-leading processes , renewable energy , and highly efficient technologies with software and services , to drive sustainability throughout the lifecycle .

What is your role and responsibilities ?

As the SVP for Secure Power in Europe , my role is to empower our country leaders to support our customers within the data centre , industrial and critical IT spaces . This includes working with our customers to define their infrastructure strategy and the business outcomes they hope to achieve through any accompanying sustainability or digital transformation initiative . From designing and specifying the technologies , to making them more efficient and reducing their carbon footprint , my role is to connect customers with our experts and empower them to transform their businesses sustainably .

Can you talk me through your company ’ s own sustainability initiatives ?

At Schneider Electric , we have many sustainability initiatives in place . They include the Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact ( SSI ) – in which we aim to help customers save 800M tonnes of carbon emissions by 2025 . To-date we have helped reduce CO2 by 319 million tonnes , which is a great start .

We are committed to reaching carbon neutrality across all company sites by 2025 and are aiming to achieve net-zero operational emissions by 2030 . We also aim to achieve net zero emissions throughout our entire supply chain by 2050 and have committed to using no gases or SF6 by the end of 2025 .