Christian Blanc — Senior Vice President and President Europe Commercial Team at Xylem

Mr. Christian Blanc has been Senior Vice President and President Europe Commercial Team at Xylem Inc. since August 4, 2016 and served as its Vice President of European Commercial Team since September 2014 until August 4, 2016. Mr. Blanc leads Xylem's commercial operations across Europe. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing strategy and execution with continued emphasis on operational improvement, growth and profitability. Mr. Blanc joined Xylem Inc. in 2010. Mr. Blanc served as the President of C&K Components, Inc. and is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the C&K business worldwide. Mr. Blanc served as a General Manager of C&K Components Europe division and Vice President at CoActive Technologies Inc. (also called as CoActive Technologies Company). He worked for CoActive Technologies business (former ITT Switches) since joining in June 1992. He started his early career with CoActive Technologies business as North America Product Manager and has since held a number of sales, engineering and managerial positions in Paris and Dole, France. Mr. Blanc has over 22 years of industry experience in a variety of roles. Prior to joining ITT, he served as a Senior Sales Manager for IBM France. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Sup??rieure des Arts et M??tiers with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.