Jack Qiu was
named senior vice president of A. O. Smith corporations and president – A. O.
Smith China in October 2020. He has profit and loss
responsibility for A. O. Smith’s water heating and water treatment business in
China, based in Nanjing and Lishui, and he oversees the company’s strategic
growth in the region.
Prior to his promotion in
October 2020, Jack served as managing director of the A. O. Smith (China) Water
Products Co., Ltd., driving growth of the Company’s traditional gas water
heater business and expansion of the combi boiler line. As general manager for
residential gas water heaters, Jack played an integral leadership
role in growing net sales for the segment from $26 million to $255 million over
his 2008-2018 tenure, which also included construction of a state-of-the-art
960,000 sq. ft. manufacturing and research facility, opened in 2013. He first
joined A. O. Smith in 2003 as deputy general manager of product engineering,
leading the team’s new product development process, continuous quality
improvement efforts and pre- and after-sale technical support functions.
In the years preceding, Jack led a 30-person
engineering team for York’s air conditioning and refrigeration unit, developing
technologies in slim ducting, dual-fan water cooling and heat pumps for residential
and commercial products. He began his career as a design engineer and project
manager with Royal Service Air Conditioning, designing and leading the
implementation of commercial HVAC infrastructure for clients such as Maxwell
House and Amway.
Jack holds a BS in HVAC from Tsinghua
University, a MS in power engineering from South China University of Technology
and a PhD in engineering thermophysics from Southeast University.