Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, Nvent Electric
Search every verified Beth Wozniak interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Beth Wozniak, chair and CEO of nVent Electric, has discussed the company's growth and its role in the expanding electrical infrastructure market. In July 2025, she noted that nVent's market capitalization had grown from under $4 billion to $12 billion since its 2018 stock exchange listing, attributing the growth to electrification and AI data center demand. Wozniak stated that the company has expanded its manufacturing capability in Minnesota and is adding hundreds of jobs, and she highlighted nVent's liquid cooling technology for data centers as a key product. She described the company's use of AI as still in its early stages, applied to coding, cybersecurity, and transactional functions. At the North Star Summit in November 2025, Wozniak said that nVent is expanding into a new facility in Blaine, Minnesota, and is hiring locally while working with technical colleges on apprenticeships. She stated that the electrical grid's capacity, which took a century to build, needs to double in the next 25 years, and that nVent's products are critical to that buildout. Wozniak also described liquid cooling as capable of reducing energy use in data centers by about 50%, and said that AI should complement human work by synthesizing data so employees can respond to customers with empathy.
“nVent spun out of another company, Pentair, so we kind of naturally were here. For us as a new, growing company in data centers, AI and electrical products, we have a great talent base to attract here — engineers, manufacturing, financial professionals — and the diversity of industries in the Midwest allows us to bring...”
“One of the innovative products we create is liquid cooling for data centers — it's important because those chips run hot, and liquid cooling can reduce the amount of energy used in a data center for the compute part by about 50%.”
“We just announced this summer we're expanding into a new facility in Blaine and we'll be manufacturing there in the beginning of next year — we're growing so fast, hiring people, ramping up suppliers.”
“When we're looking at core manufacturing talent, we're recruiting from the local community and we work with technical colleges to drive apprenticeships — not everyone wants to go into a career in manufacturing, so showing how exciting it is and creating pathways is really important.”
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Beth Wozniak is the CEO of nVent, a $2.2 billion, high-performance electrical company with 10000 employees worldwide. In 2018 ...
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