Rockwell Automation appoints new EMEA president

Thomas Donato has been with the company for 11 years

Rockwell Automation has appointed Thomas Donato as president of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Donato was most recently Rockwell Automation’s regional vice-president in Canada. He also served as regional sales director of the company's Northern and Eastern European region. Previously, he was the business director for the company’s services and solutions business in EMEA.

In his new role, Donato will be responsible for driving growth in this important region. He has 18 years of automation industry experience, including the past 11 years with Rockwell Automation.

John McDermott, Rockwell Automation senior vice-president, global sales and marketing, said: “We’ll continue to build our business by supporting end user customers and machine builders in two ways: One is by helping end users realise that The Connected Enterprise is essential today for any company that wants to implement future advanced manufacturing strategies such as Industry 4.0. The other is by making integration seamless for our machine builders. These strategies will contribute to the success of both groups.”

Donato holds a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in automation and controls engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany. He also studied at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland.

Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, employs about 22,500 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.