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Stephanie Sirt
Company name: Emerson Automation Solutions
Title: Global Senior Director, EPC Business
What does your company or organization do?
Emerson provides equipment and solutions to enable customers to automate and optimize processes.
What is the primary function of your role?
I develop and drive the strategy across EPC partner customer accounts and manage the...
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