John Berra leads Emerson’s process management business which posted sales of $5.7 billion in fiscal 2007.  He joined Emerson in 1976 as a marketing manager for the Rosemount division and later served as vice president of sales and marketing, senior vice president and general manager, and became president of Rosemount in 1991.  In 1992, he was named executive vice president of Emerson’s process group.  Berra became president of Fisher-Rosemount’s control systems division in 1993, and president of the Fisher-Rosemount group in 1997. He was named senior vice president and process group business leader for Emerson in 1999, promoted to executive vice president in 2000, and became president of Emerson Process Management in 2001.

Berra currently serves as chairman of the board of the Fieldbus Foundation and is the former chairman of the Measurement, Control and Automation Association (1988-1990).  A member of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA), Berra is recipient of the ISA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is a former member of the ISA President’s Industry Advisory Committee. He is also a recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award and the Washington University Alumni Achievement Award.  He is a member of the board of directors of Ryder Systems, Inc.

Berra is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where he received a bachelor’s degree in systems science and engineering in 1969.