Anthony Allard is Chief Commercial Officer and Head of North America at Hitachi Energy. Anthony was most recently Chief Operating Officer of BECIS, a leading energy service solution provider in Singapore. Having spent most of his career in the power sector at GE and Alstom working in multiple countries on four continents, he held several executive-level positions, including General Manager and Board Member for GE Prolec Transformers in Mexico. He was also General Manager for the GE-XD High Voltage Products partnership in China and spent 10 years working for Alstom Grid in the Americas in Strategy, Commercial and Operations management roles. Anthony holds an MBA from Yale University, a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and a master’s degree in Telecommunications from Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.