Colin Tilzey

“Irene has a great combination of technical depth, intellect and business acumen, and her leadership has enabled Kennametal to implement a leading industrial innovation system. She has great vision and has successfully led projects from ideation through technical &market development to commercialization. Irene is customer focused and excels in matching customer value with technology development and execution. She has set the gold standard in innovation practices and it has been a great pleasure work with her.”