ESW Group announced that Patrick Barge is joining ESW Group as its Chief Executive Officer, effective November 2, 2015, bringing more than 25 years of senior leadership and engineering experience. Barge was most recently leading Cummins Emissions Solutions' (CES) European business unit with over $330 million in annual sales. During Barge's 12 year tenure at Cummins, other than his General Manager role at CES, Barge held various CTO and senior engineering positions across multiple US-based divisions.

He was previously Group Director of R&D with Polymer Group in Charlotte, NC.