Stephen O’Brien was named senior vice president
of A. O. Smith Corporation and president of Lochinvar, LLC in April 2022. He
joined Lochinvar as chief operating officer in August 2021, overseeing the engineering,
manufacturing, quality, sales, marketing and business development functions.
Steve originally joined the
company in 1997 as sales engineer for A. O. Smith Electrical Products Company,
where he steadily progressed through sales and marketing roles, until being
named senior vice president & general manager – HVAC, Hermetic and
Appliances in 2008.
When Electrical Products
Company was sold to Regal Beloit in 2011, he served as their acquisition
integration leader and vice president & business leader, responsible for
the P&L of the Marathon and Century Commercial Motor Business for four
years. In 2015, he joined Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating where he
was instrumental in transforming the channel strategy through the formation of
the Mitsubishi Electric Trane joint venture. He became senior vice president of
the residential and commercial businesses and led the creation of strategies and
programs resulting in significant revenue and net profit growth.
Steve
earned his MBA from the University of Dayton and BA in mathematics and computer
science from the State University of New
York – Potsdam.