Emrah Ercan
Vice President & Head of Service- North America Hitachi Energy
Emrah Ercan joined Hitachi Energy as Vice President and Head of Service Business for North America in January 2026, leading the maintenance, modernization, and performance optimization of critical electric grid infrastructure supporting the energy transition and growing demands from AI, electrification, and data centers.
He brings over two decades of executive leadership building and scaling service businesses in industrial technology. Most recently, he served as Vice President & General Manager at Honeywell, leading a global industrial automation business. Prior to that, he held senior roles at Ingersoll Rand as Vice President & General Manager for Precision Science Technologies, Managing Partner at Cimbria Capital, and leadership positions at General Electric and SUEZ, where he ran digital solutions and services for power and water infrastructure.
Throughout his career, Emrah has focused on the convergence of physical assets and digital intelligence—transforming service organizations from reactive maintenance to predictive optimization, deploying AI-driven diagnostics and IoT-enabled monitoring at scale, and building commercial models that align customer outcomes with provider value. His expertise spans P&L leadership, portfolio strategy, product-service-digital integration, operational transformation, and organizational change.
Emrah holds an MBA from the University of Southern California, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Turkey
Implementing New Service Models
3:20 PM Keynote Infrastructure Case Study: New Partnerships And Service Models In Data Center Development
Data Centers are massive undertakings on every level, whether architecturally, energy needs, mechanical and digital know how and so much more. Listen to leaders from Hitachi, Shermco, and Stack infrastructure as they speak to their real-world Data Center infrastructure project, discussing practical challenges, lessons learned, and what it takes to execute safely and effectively at scale.
Challenges discussed include:
- Navigating new partnership and energy models with Hitachi Energy and Shermco as service providers
- STACK as both a builder/operator of data centers and a large-scale buyer of services across power, electrical, HVAC, and related systems
- Problem solving in real time in a new industry, to ensure rapid and safe development
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