NVent puts innovation on display at new experience center

In today’s newsletter: Tonya Allen and Karen Coleman on McKnight Foundation ’s first chief investment officer Priya Parrish , retirement reflections from Shelly Ibach , Mayor Jacob Frey , Mich Berthiaume ’s latest holiday inspiration, designer Elyce Arons in town and another brewery to shut down. Patrick Kennedy and I caught up with Beth Wozniak and members of her executive team at the opening of a new nVent experience center. Patrick has that report: Ribbon cuttings are becoming routine for nVent CEO Beth Wozniak and her team — in the last three years she has christened manufacturing plant expansions in Anoka, Blaine and Arizona. On Nov. 5, the company cut the ribbon at a different sort of space: a new customer experience center, adjacent to nVent’s management headquarters in St. Louis Park. Advertisement “We had the idea of creating a space that captures the essence and energy of our company, that was what the team set out to do,” Wozniak said. “And I think we have captured it here.” The customer experience center will be a hands-on space for customers, salespeople and nVent’s own employees to see up close the growing portfolio of electrical connection and protection products it supplies. “We really want to make sure we’re putting our best and brightest innovation on display,” said chief marketing officer Martha Bennett . Among the items on display were nVent’s liquid cooling solutions for data centers that have helped transform nVent into a high growth company. In each of the last six quarters, nVent revenues have grown more than 30%.