Vincenzo Salmeri appointed President of Current/OS

Mr. Salmeri’s appointment comes at a pivotal moment for the energy transition. As electrification accelerates, driven by renewable energy, storage, electric mobility, digital infrastructure and the rapid growth of data centers, DC is emerging as a key enabler of more efficient, flexible and resilient electrical architectures. Current/OS aims to provide the shared rules, reference architectures and interoperability framework needed to make DC systems safe, repeatable and scalable across the market.

Salmeri brings 30 years of proven expertise to this pivotal new role

An international senior executive with nearly 30 years of experience at Schneider Electric, Vincenzo Salmeri has held several global and regional leadership roles across Europe and Asia. His career has spanned product management, business development, digital transformation, commercial strategy and the development of international teams and ecosystems.

After starting his career in Italy in operational product marketing for power switching and control solutions, he moved to France in 2001 as Global Product Manager and later Global Launch Manager. In 2008, he relocated to Shanghai to lead business development in Asia-Pacific, where he built a Low Voltage APAC team from the ground up and supported an ambitious regional growth plan. He later moved to Hong Kong in a global role focused on the digital transformation of customer relations across 54 countries. Prior to his appointment to Current/OS, he served as Vice President of the Secure Power Commercial & Industrial division at international level.

Vincenzo Salmeri holds a technical diploma in electromechanical engineering from the Amedeo Avogadro Technical Institute in Turin, and an MBA from IAE Pierre-Mendès-France business school in Grenoble, completed while he was based in Shanghai. He has also completed executive education programs at MIT, including one on artificial intelligence strategy with MIT Sloan School of Management and one on sustainability through MIT Professional Education.

As President of Current/OS, Vincenzo Salmeri will lead the execution of the foundation’s strategy and support the continued development of its global ecosystem of partners. His mandate will focus on strengthening governance, accelerating international alliances, supporting certification and education initiatives, and helping the industry converge around shared rules for interoperable DC systems.

Vincenzo Salmeri, President of Current/OS: “Direct Current has a central role to play in the future of electrical distribution. We do not seek to replace AC, but push for the usage of DC where it brings clear advantages: efficiency, simplicity, integration of renewables and storage, and new architectures for fast-growing electrical needs. For DC to be adopted at scale, the industry needs shared rules, open reference architectures and a common interoperability framework. At Current/OS, our mission is to make DC systems safe, simple, repeatable and multi-vendor by design. By bringing together leading industrial players, experts and alliances, we want to create the conditions for DC to become a practical foundation for the next phase of electrification and the global energy transition.”