A re-post of Jodie Glore's bio from Rockwell Automation
This will be our first report from him, should be interesting
to say the least. Good Luck to All
Jodie K. Glore President and Chief Operating Officer, Rockwell Automation
Jodie K. Glore is president and chief operating officer of Rockwell Automation, which brings together leading brands in industrial automation including Allen-Bradley, Reliance Electric, Dodge and Rockwell Software. He is a Corporate Senior Vice President of Rockwell International and a member of its Corporate Strategy Committee.
Glore is known in industrial circles as a strategist and an implementer who has an extensive background in sales and marketing, acquisitions and new venture start-up, product development, globalization and strategic planning. At Rockwell Automation, he is an advocate of fact-based decision-making, employee engagement and the concept of "quality speed" (making better products faster) — all of which are designed to ensure a "customer-success" focus.
Glore first joined Allen-Bradley, now part of Rockwell Automation, in 1979 as supervisor of special projects for the company's Programmable Control Division at Highland Heights, Ohio. During the next five years, he held supervisory and managerial positions for new product development, marketing planning services and product marketing within the Programmable Control Division. In 1984, he was appointed director of product management for A-B's Sensing Division in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and held this position until 1985.
In 1985, Glore left Allen-Bradley to join the Square D Company. He first served there as director of marketing and then, in 1987, as vice president and general manager for its Automation Products Division. In January 1989, Glore relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, when Square D named him vice president and general manager of its Power Equipment Business. In October 1990, Square D sent Glore to its headquarters in Palatine, Illinois, as corporate vice president of sales and marketing for its 1,000+ - employee U.S.A. salesforce, with sales exceeding $1.3 billion annually. This position included responsibility for the Technical Services Division, as well as for direct sales, distributor marketing and four regional distribution centers.
In January 1992, former Allen-Bradley president Don Davis brought Glore back to A-B, as senior vice president for the Industrial Computer and Communications Group (ICCG). ICCG was later re-named the Automation Group. There he contributed significantly in A-B's move toward integrating plant control and information systems for the company's prime customers — original equipment manufacturers. As head of the Automation Group, Glore had worldwide responsibility for the company's control logic, sensors, operator interface and quality management tool businesses. He retained this position until his January 1994 appointment as president of A-B. Glore became chairman of the board of Reliance Electric in February 1995. In September 1995, he was elected a Corporate Senior Vice President of Rockwell International and a member of its Corporate Strategy Committee, serving as President and Chief Operating Officer for Rockwell Automation. Glore is also a director of BFGoodrich, elected in September, 1997.
Glore was born in 1947 in Burley, Idaho, and grew up in Ontario, Oregon, a small town in the eastern part of that state. Following high school, he enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in engineering.
Following graduation, he spent 13 months in Germany and then served in Vietnam for a year with the 101st Airborne Division. After being selected to teach at West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, he earned a master's degree in 1975, with honors, in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. It was after four years as an instructor at West Point that Glore joined Allen-Bradley.
Rockwell Automation brings together leading brands to provide a broad range of automation solutions that include Allen-Bradley, Reliance Electric, Dodge and Rockwell Software.
Rockwell is a global electronic controls and communications company with leadership positions in industrial automation, avionics and communications, and electronic commerce. In late June Rockwell announced that it planned to spin off to shareowners its Semiconductor Systems business at calendar year end. Rockwell's continuing businesses will have projected fiscal 1998 sales of approximately $7 billion and 38,000 employees.
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