Arnaud Cantin graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris (Innovation Engineering Manufacturing) and RWTH Aachen (Industrial Engineering) and joined the electrical electronics sector after several years in automotive companies. He spent 8 years at Chloride Industrial Systems leading Tendering Execution, Strategy and Sales Services of industrial grade UPS systems, based in France then UAE. He joined Schneider Electric in 2011 to lead from Canada the Solar Energy Storage business including strategy, marketing and R&D of full balance of plants ( inverters, MV, grid connection substations, monitoring control and services), and has taken since 2018 the responsibility of the power management software automation systems business globally. He recently took over the responsibility of the global Digital Power business, leading the Digitization and Decarbonization of electrical systems with a portfolio of Software, Systems, Intelligent Products and Services including power metering, protection relays, RTUs controllers, power quality correction, power management software and automation systems,
across all industry segments Commercial Industrial Buildings, Healthcare, Datacenters, Infrastructure, Heavy Industries and Utilities.