Charles A. Peters, Senior Executive Vice President at Emerson, with a 40-year career, leading many of the company’s strategic growth and technology innovation initiatives, retired effective December 7, 2015. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Emerson combines technology and engineering to provide solutions for industrial applications, including valve assembly.
Peters, a member of the Office of the Chief Executive, most recently had management oversight of Emerson’s information technology and marketing programs, as well as its InSinkErator, Ridge Tool and Emerson Tool businesses. He has been a Director of the company since 2000.
Peters joined Emerson in 1975 as an engineering cooperative student at its Browning business in Maysville, Kentucky, and served in a wide range of operating and management roles, including Vice President of strategic planning, Vice President of development and technology and Senior Vice President of growth programs.