Karen Bomber

ABB Inc

Chief Commercial Officer, ABB Energy Industries

Karen Bomber is currently serving as Chief Commercial Officer for ABB’s Energy Industries division globally. In this capacity she is a member of the Energy Industries global management team. Karen joined ABB in February 2023. In this role, Karen is responsible for delivering the Energy Industry strategic plan, inclusive of energy transition and sustainability and leading end-to-end offering management that properly position the division and enables strong go-to-market practices via commercial excellence. Karen joins ABB from Honeywell, Productivity Solutions and Services, where she was Vice President, Global Marketing and was responsible for managing the global marketing team and driving new customer acquisition, vertical strategies, digital tactics, and channel management. She has over 25 years of technical experience and has held diverse roles of increasing responsibility in engineering, product management, marketing operations, operations planning and portfolio management across various technologies and different industries at Sensormatic, Tyco International and InVue. Karen holds several patents in the AIDC, RFID and retail automation space. Karen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Packaging Science from the Clemson University, South Carolina.

Sessions With Karen Bomber

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 11:50am - 12:40pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 04:50 pm - 19/mar/2024 05:40 pm

    Strategies and Business Models for Deploying CleanTech

    Clean Tech

    New innovations in cleantech, carbon management, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels, transportation and other industries require a diverse ecosystem of partners to ensure ideas can be scaled up and commercialized. Those partners range from the startup community, customers, corporations and a variety of financiers who together need to steer innovations through their various stages of growth and deployment. What models of innovation development are proving most effective in supporting technologies applicable to the energy transition? How are players managing the need to establish partnerships, while also maintaining their competitive advantage?