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Schneider Electric Canada Strengthens Commercial Leadership to Help Customers Navigate the New Energy Landscape

Expanded leadership roles for Shaun MacGarvie and Sophie Chadefaud reinforce Schneider Electric’s commitment to helping customers accelerate efficiency, resilience, and sustainability outcomes.

MILTON, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schneider Electric Canada is strengthening its commercial leadership to help customers navigate the new energy landscape.

"The future of competitiveness in Canada will be shaped by how effectively organizations manage energy, digitize operations, and build resilience," said Emily Heitman, President of Schneider Electric Canada.

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As the world’s most sustainable energy technology company, Schneider Electric helps organizations electrify, automate, and digitalize their operations to improve efficiency, resilience and sustainability. To further enhance the customer experience across Canada, the company has expanded the leadership responsibilities of two senior executives.

Shaun MacGarvie has been promoted to Vice President, National Sales, bringing together contractor, end user, and channel sales teams into a unified national sales organization. The new structure enhances coordination across customer-facing teams and enables a more consistent approach to serving customers and partners nationwide.

Sophie Chadefaud has been promoted to Vice President, Marketing, with an expanded mandate spanning marketing, partner engagement, sales enablement, and e-commerce. By bringing these capabilities together, Schneider Electric is strengthening the connection between customer insight, digital engagement, commercial execution, and online growth, helping customers and partners more easily access the expertise, solutions, and technologies needed to accelerate their energy and digital transformation.

The leadership changes reflect Schneider Electric Canada's continued investment in the capabilities needed to help organizations address some of today's most pressing challenges, including energy management, infrastructure modernization, decarbonization, and digital transformation. As customers seek new ways to optimize operations while advancing business and sustainability objectives, closer alignment between sales and marketing will strengthen Schneider Electric's ability to deliver expertise, innovation, and support at every stage of the customer journey.

"The future of competitiveness in Canada will be shaped by how effectively organizations manage energy, digitize operations, and build resilience," said Emily Heitman, President of Schneider Electric Canada. “As the world's most sustainable energy technology company, Schneider Electric is helping customers lead that transformation. These leadership changes strengthen our ability to bring customers the expertise, innovation, and ecosystem partnerships they need to navigate the new energy landscape and turn ambitious goals into measurable results."

The enhanced leadership structure reinforces Schneider Electric Canada's commitment to helping organizations thrive in an increasingly electric and digital world. By bringing sales and marketing closer together, Schneider Electric is strengthening its ability to deliver integrated solutions that help customers accelerate their energy and digital transformation while improving business performance, resilience, and sustainability.

About Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Its technologies enable buildings, data centres, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems, enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability. The portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI-powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory. With 160,000 employees and 1 million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies. www.se.com/ca.

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Schneider Electric Canada
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For more information:

Jodi Smith-Meisner
Schneider Electric Canada
jodi.smithmeisner@se.com

Samiha Fariha
Golin
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