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Rick Kephart

Rick Kephart has more than 30 years of automation experience in the power and water/wastewater industries. Over his career, he has become an expert in control systems and theory, embedded systems and real-time systems. Rick currently serves as the vice president of technology for Emerson’s power generation and water solutions business. Previously, Rick was the vice president of software solutions and responsible for the software portion of the Ovation™ automation platform. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Penn State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

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