Rockwell Automation Announces CEO Blake Moret to become Chairman

MILWAUKEE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE:ROK) today announced that its Board of
Directors has elected President and Chief Executive Officer Blake D.
Moret as Chairman of the Board effective January 1, 2018. Moret, 54,
succeeds Keith D. Nosbusch, who has served as chairman since 2005 and
remains as a director. The Company will continue to have an independent
lead director.

Donald R. Parfet, Lead Director, said: “Since Blake became CEO and
joined the Board in July 2016, he has demonstrated that he is
exceptionally well qualified to lead the Company and the Board. Blake is
a champion of the Company’s high performance culture with an
extraordinary ability to inspire and connect with customers, employees,
partners and the leadership team. The Board is confident that this
leadership structure will continue to drive the Company’s success.”

Moret began his career in 1985 as a sales trainee, and subsequently
served in senior positions across the organization, including
international assignments in Europe and Canada. He was promoted to
senior vice president of Control Products & Solutions, one of the
Company’s two business segments, in 2011, and to president and chief
executive officer in July 2016.

Moret earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia
Institute of Technology. He serves on the National Association of
Manufacturers’ (NAM) Board of Directors and Executive Committee and on
the boards of other industry and civic organizations and is a member of
the Business Roundtable.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest
company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes its
customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Headquartered
in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs approximately 22,000
people serving customers in more than 80 countries.

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