Charlotte Hill, Chairman

Charlotte Hill is President & CEO of Georg Fischer Signet LLC (GFS), where she has worldwide responsibility for product design, development and delivery of industrial water and wastewater measurement sensors and instrumentation.

GFS is part of the $3.5 billion George Fischer Corporation, based in Switzerland, with 200-year-old roots in the metal forging industry, and today a global leader in the machining technology, automotive and piping industries.  Charlotte joined Signet, in 1996, as Vice President of Operations.  In 1999, she was promoted to Vice President of Marketing and, in 2001, she was named to her current position of President.

Prior to GFS, from 1989 until 1996, Charlotte worked for Esco Electronics, a holding company for Rantec Microwave and Electronics, Inc. and Electronics & Space Corp.  She was Vice President of Operations/Quality Assurance for Rantec, from 1995 to 1996, and Senior Manufacturing Engineering/Production Manager for Electronics & Space Corp., from 1989 until 1995.  Earlier, from 1980 to 1989, Charlotte worked for IBM, ultimately as Manufacturing Engineering Manager, responsible for the development, building and maintenance of high-volume processing equipment for hard disk drive magnetic media, from 1986 to 1989.  Before IBM, Charlotte was an Analytical Chemist for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, from 1977 until 1979.

Charlotte earned a BS degree in Bacteriology, in 1976, and another BS degree in Chemistry, in 1977, both from the University of Idaho.  She earned her MBA from Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1994.

In addition to golf, Charlotte enjoys jogging, foreign travel, her garden and her dog. She was elected to the MCAA Board of Directors in May 2005, Vice Chairman in May 2008 and Chairman in May 2009.

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