Mr. Bakker has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hubbell Incorporated, an international manufacturer of high quality, reliable electrical and utility solutions for a broad range of customer and end market applications since May 2021, and President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Hubbell since October 2020. Prior to this, he served as Hubbell’s Chief Operating Officer from June 2019 to October 2020, after serving as President of the Power Systems group from 2014 to 2019. Mr. Bakker began his career with Hubbell in 1988 as a manufacturing engineer with Hubbell Wiring Systems and has held positions of increasing leadership around the world in both Hubbell’s utility and electrical segments.  Mr. Bakker has an M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and an M.B.A. from University of Bridgeport.