Jane Barr is vice president of Global Industry Practice. She provides sales leadership and strategic direction for our global commercial teams focused by core vertical industry: Consumer-Packaged Goods, Life Sciences, Automotive & Tire, and Heavy Industries. Jane is responsible for supporting customer outcomes at strategic accounts and industry verticals while helping to secure Rockwell Automation as our clients’ digital solution partner.

Sales and Marketing is the company’s customer-facing organization, bringing together global sales regions, Channels and Marketing, Customer Care, Customer Experience, Sales Operations and focused selling resources across the industrial manufacturing eco-system.

As an engineer growing up on the plant floor of an automotive manufacturing plant in Detroit, Jane built her passion for manufacturing in these early years and created a steadfast empathy for the challenges and pressures industrial manufacturing face. For the past 25 years, Jane has led global business and sales teams here at Rockwell Automation. further intensifying her commitment to partner with industrial manufacturers to build more productive, connected and sustainable manufacturing practices.

Jane is a member of SWE, Professional Women’s Council, Global Voices Council, and is the executive sponsor of Advance for the Field and an active advocate on Rockwell’s inclusion journey.

Jane has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, a Certificate in Industrial Distribution Management from Texas A&M University, and a Certificate in Digital Transformation from MIT.