ST. LOUIS – Emerson has appointed Vidya Ramnath senior vice president and chief marketing officer, effective June 1. Ramnath, who currently serves as Emerson’s Middle East and Africa president, will report to Emerson President and Chief Executive Officer Lal Karsanbhai and serve on Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive. As CMO, she will lead global marketing, brand, external communications and play a vital role in driving greater awareness of Emerson’s continued evolution as a global automation leader across customer stakeholders and investor communities.
Across her nearly 30-year Emerson career, Ramnath has held several key marketing, sales and operations leadership roles globally since joining the company in 1994 as a manufacturing engineer for Rosemount in Singapore. Ramnath held a number of roles with increasing responsibility, including senior manager of customer care for Emerson’s Flow business in Asia Pacific and the director of marketing for Rosemount.
Ramnath became the vice president of marketing for Emerson Asia Pacific in 2010 along with business leadership for Emerson’s wireless portfolio. In 2016, Ramnath became vice president of Plantweb Solutions and Services in the global sales organization and was named vice president of Asia Pacific for measurement and analytical in 2017. She held this role until 2019, when she was promoted to her current role as president of Middle East and Africa for Emerson.