Adrian Button is Senior Vice President, Operations for Carrier. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of Carrier’s global operations, including driving improved demand planning and sales, inventory & operations planning processes, supply chain resiliency and factory productivity across Carrier manufacturing operations. He is also responsible for advanced manufacturing, operations transformation, EH&S and quality.
Prior to Carrier, Adrian was with National Cash Register (NCR), where he served as Executive Vice President, Product & Service Operations, overseeing NCR’s global hardware, field service, procurement, manufacturing and engineering operations. Over the course of his 30-year career, Adrian has held several senior general management and operations roles, including 22 years at General Electric where he worked across the GE Aviation, Oil & Gas and Industrial Solutions divisions, with international assignments in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Adrian holds a BEng Honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glamorgan in the United Kingdom, and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University in 2015.
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