William served at Eaton Corporation for 27 years, most recently as Group President of the hydraulics, filtration, and golf grip group, which generated more than $3 billion in sales and employed 14,500 people across nearly 70 facilities. William began his career with Eaton in 1973 as a sales engineer, followed by senior leadership roles at Siemens Automation and Rockwell Automation. He returned to Eaton in 1999 to lead the Electrical components operation. In 2004 he was asked to facilitate the turnaround of the Hydraulics group, which more than doubled in size and improved profitability by more than 1,300 basis points under his leadership. He served on the Eaton chairman’s Senior Leadership Council as the executive sponsor and worked to develop policies, procedures, and messaging around ethics at Eaton, resulting in the company being recognized as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for eight years in a row. William has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Villanova University.