• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Lal Karsanbhai

Emerson

Executive President, Automation Solutions

Lal Karsanbhai, Executive President, Emerson Automation Solutions, is responsible for leading strategies, technologies, and innovations to help customers enhance operations and achieve top quartile performance. Emerson Automation Solutions is a leader in helping discrete manufacturing companies automate and optimize production through innovation technologies and expertise. Mr. Karsanbhai is part of Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive, which helps develop and guide the company’s global business strategies. He began his career at Emerson in 1995 as an international planner and held several business development positions of increasing responsibility before being appointed Director of Corporate Planning in 1999. He served as Vice President of the regulator technologies business from 2002 until 2005, when he moved to Gallardon, France, as Vice President and General Manager of natural gas. There, he was responsible for integrating two European natural gas entities, restructuring the business, and setting up a plant in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Mr. Karsanbhai was named President of Emerson’s Fisher regulator technologies in 2008. In the role, he was responsible for a global business comprised of four distinct business units, nine manufacturing plants, and 2,200 employees. In 2012 he became Vice President of Planning, responsible for coordinating Emerson’s global planning and strategy. He also worked with top Emerson executives, business leaders, business unit presidents, and world area leadership to organize the business plans and strategy sessions designed to drive growth and profitability. Mr. Karsanbhai served as President of Emerson’s former Network Power business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from 2014 until 2016, when he was named Group President of Emerson’s Rosemount Measurement & Analytical. Mr. Karsanbhai is fluent in Portuguese, French, and English and has lived and worked in Europe, Africa, and North America. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Sessions With Lal Karsanbhai

Monday, 11 March

  • 03:20pm - 04:05pm (CST) / -

    Digital Transformation: Creating value

    Panel Technology/Innovation

    The oil and gas industry has embraced digitalization over the past few years as a means to effectively manage costs and raise efficiencies in a challenging oil price environment. As industry players seek the next wave of value they’re often finding that the best opportunities lie at the interfaces – leveraging digital capabilities to integrate across the oil & gas value chain and lifecycle, as well as across functional and organizational boundaries. Successfully navigating such pursuits will not only transform how companies develop and operate their oil and gas resources, but also how they engage their customers and business partners. This session will explore where value has been achieved thus far, where it will be created in the future, and what it will take to truly maximize returns.

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 09:00am - 09:45am (CST) / -

    Voices of Innovation with Lal Karsanbhai: Making digital transformation real

    Technology/Innovation

    How will digital technologies shape the future? Lal Karsanbhai talks about how Emerson places itself in a global context, and why they have chosen to focus on energy as one of its strategic priorities. Interviewed by Atul Arya, SVP and Chief Energy Strategist, IHS Markit.