With effect from February 2024, Ifeanyi Odoh will take over as Country President for Schneider Electric Kenya, a worldwide leader in energy management and automation.
From his position as South East Asia’s Strategy and Transformation Leader overseeing Vietnam and Cambodia, Ifeanyi moves to Schneider Electric Kenya.
Ifeanyi is a seasoned company executive who has championed sustainability and the new energy landscape ideas in the communities he has worked with. While in Vietnam, he achieved transformational goals that set the stage for products like e-Mobility and Energy as a Service to become game-changers for the company.
Before taking charge of strategy in Vietnam and Cambodia, Ifeanyi oversaw commercial operations and went-to-market strategies for Schneider Electric’s software, services, and products in Anglophone West Africa as Head of Offer Marketing & Business Development. When Ifeanyi first started working for Schneider Electric, he was a research engineer in the company’s strategy and innovation division in France.
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Schneider Electric’s Anglophone Africa Cluster President, Devan Pillay, expressed his delight at the appointment of Ifeanyi Odoh as the company’s new Country President for East Africa. Ifeanyi is a transformative leader and strategist with a track record of success in generating long-term growth and new ideas for the company. They want to use his knowledge of the New Energy Landscape to help them seize energy opportunities in the area.
In her new position as head of Schneider Electric’s sustainability strategy for international operations, Carol Koech will be moving to Dubai from her position as outgoing country president.
After three years of dedicated service to Schneider Electric Kenya, Devan Pillay expressed his gratitude to Carol for all that she had done. In her role as Country President, Carol oversaw the company’s efforts to improve operational efficiency, and her unwavering leadership has been instrumental in laying a solid foundation and preparing it for future growth.
Furthermore, Devan expressed their delight at Ifeanyi’s promotion and expressed their anticipation of drawing on the institutional expertise and experience acquired across Schneider Electric’s various markets.
When asked about the appointment, Ifeanyi expressed his joy at being named CEO of Schneider Electric Kenya. You can’t help but be impressed by this company’s formidable foothold in East Africa, robust brand recognition, exceptional staff, and limitless room for expansion. He committed to collaborating with the local team to boost company performance and launch regional programmes to impact entrepreneurship and new energy concepts.
What Schneider Electric Kenya does
The mission of Schnider Electric Kenya is to enable people to maximise the use of their energy and resources so that people can all live in a sustainable and progressive society.
By implementing a corporate sustainability strategy that centres on decarbonisation goals, Schneider Electric has emerged as a pioneer in the sustainable business sector, paving the way for digital transformation and next-generation automation. Schneider Electric is a socially responsible business that strives to make a positive impact in the areas of climate change, resource conservation, diversity in the workplace, and inclusion.
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As a frontrunner in the net-zero transition, Schneider Electric is prepared to assist its business partners in establishing cutting-edge corporate sustainability strategies that optimise the utilisation of energy, resources, and people, thus bridging the gap between resilience and sustainability.
Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Impact Programme (SSI) aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025, boost efforts to fight climate change and social inequality and fulfil local commitments. It also focuses on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets. To reduce carbon emissions, they work in tandem with suppliers and consumers to implement services and solutions that improve energy efficiency and sustainability.
Consistent investments and advancements in sustainable and dependable energy enable them to achieve carbon neutrality in their operations both now and in the future, in keeping with their carbon pledge, and their innovation portfolio propels them closer to a climate-positive world.