Gretchen McClain

Gretchen W. McClain was named CEO of Xylem Inc. when the company was formed from the spin-off of the global water businesses from ITT Corporation in October 2011.

Gretchen W. McClain was named CEO of Xylem Inc. when the company was formed from the spin-off of the global water businesses from ITT Corporation in October 2011. She joined ITT in September 2005 as the President of the company’s Residential & Commercial Water business, was named President of ITT Fluid Technology in March 2007 and promoted to Senior Vice President and President of ITT Fluid and Motion Control in December 2008. Prior to joining ITT, McClain served in a number of senior executive positions at Honeywell Aerospace and Allied Signal as well as spending nine years with NASA, serving as Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Development.