Adapting and prospering in the energy transition

Kenji Hasegawa is the Vice President for the IA Products and Service Business for Yokogawa Electric Corp. Since joining Yokogawa in 1985, Mr. Hasegawa has held a wide range of positions in sales, business strategy and planning, and marketing in Japan and India for IA and IT products, systems and solutions. In his current role, he is responsible for Yokogawa’s core IA products and service business globally. He graduated with a degree in physics from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Tim Shire is the Vice President of Energy Transition at KBC, a Yokogawa company. He began his career as an engineer in utilities design for an EPC company, before joining KBC in 2006, where he worked initially as an energy efficiency consultant. Mr. Shire has worked on a range of projects in oil refining, petrochemicals, gas and LNG worldwide. From 2014, he led KBC’s consulting innovation program and was a product manager for KBC’s suite of energy software. In his current role, Mr. Shire is focusing on digitalized solutions to address the changing energy landscape. He holds BCh and MS degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.