By John McCormick

Eaton Corp. this week named information-technology veteran Katrina Redmond as senior vice president and chief information officer.

Ms. Redmond, who will report to Eaton Chairman and Chief Executive Craig Arnold, succeeds Bill Blausey, Eaton's longtime CIO, who is retiring next month from the power-management company.

Eaton said Mr. Blausey, who has been Eaton's CIO since 2006, will work with Ms. Redmond to ensure a smooth transition.

Mr. Blausey isn't the only high-level manager leaving the company. Eaton's vice chairman and chief financial and planning officer Richard Fearon is retiring in March.

Ms. Redmond will lead Eaton's IT department, which has about 2,000 employees, and will oversee the development and execution of the company's enterprisewide information technology strategy. The IT team supports Eaton's technology infrastructure and applications and helps drive the company's digital strategy.

Dublin-based Eaton sells products, systems and services that help customers manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power. The company, which has more than 90,000 employees and generated more than $21 billion in sales in 2019, also makes industrial clutches, motors, fuel pumps and other equipment.

"It's been a business that has been extremely well run over the past multiple decades," said Ms. Redmond. "It's just an impressive collection of talent [and] product, and it's a very well-known and well-respected brand in the marketplace. All of those things [held] a lot of value when I was thinking through the opportunity."

Ms. Redmond joins Eaton from Hubbell Inc., a Shelton, Conn., manufacturer of electrical and electronic products, where she was vice president and CIO. Before joining Hubbell in 2019, she held top information technology leadership positions at ABB Ltd., GE Industrial Solutions and GE Grid Solutions.

"Katrina has a fantastic background," Mr. Blausey said, adding that Ms. Redmond had the IT, operational and leadership style the company was looking for.

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