Kevin Beaty
Senior Advisor
Kevin Beaty is a commercialization, program, and business unit leader with more than two decades of experience building, launching, and scaling electrification and advanced powertrain programs in the commercial vehicle industry — with deep experience working across U.S. and China markets.
Kevin’s experience is grounded in hands-on leadership. He spent over a decade leading and scaling Eaton’s hybrid electric powertrain business from inception to global commercialization, owning architecture decisions, sourcing strategies, supplier commitments, system validation, APQP/PPAP, manufacturing scale-up, warranty exposure, and P&L outcomes across OEM production programs worldwide.
That work delivered global majority market share in Eaton’s served hybrid segments with strong margins, high reliability and safety performance, and warranty costs at or below plan.
His work spans new product development, commercialization, and business unit growth across advanced powertrains, battery systems, controls/software integration, and vehicle electrification — requiring alignment of engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial teams to deliver products into real customer deployments.
Kevin’s career includes more than two decades of hands-on operating leadership in the commercial vehicle industry. He has led strategic business units and major program development efforts at Eaton Corporation (NYSE: ETN), Woodward (NASDAQ: WWD), CALSTART, and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). These roles involved working closely with global truck, bus, and engine OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and major fleet customers to develop and launch new technologies and market initiatives.
Kevin brings an engineering-first perspective informed by a BSME, MBA, and PE licensure. He is an inventor or co-inventor on eight U.S. patents, and was a founder or co-founder of several state and national-level public-private partnerships. He has lived and worked in China and maintains an active network of battery manufacturers, suppliers, and industry partners across both Chinese and Western markets.
Today, Kevin focuses on leadership roles in commercialization, new product development, and business unit growth — particularly where companies are building new programs, scaling production, or entering new markets.
