Tim Rowland

Tim Rowland

Tim Rowland is CEO of Badger Technologies, a product division of Jabil. He is responsible for driving sales, development, delivery and service for the organization’s suite of retail automation solutions. Rowland brings more than 38 years of engineering, manufacturing test, sales and strategy experience to the position. Previously, Rowland served in various engineering roles at Lexmark, where he drove the development of innovative retail automation offerings. He also spent a decade at IBM in a variety of manufacturing test engineering, development and research roles. Rowland has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

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