Array Technologies announced that Neil Manning has been named Chief Operations Officer. Mr. Manning is a global business leader with over three decades of operations and commercial experience in driving growth via transformative change across several engineered product and service companies. He joins Array from Rotork where he was responsible for the company's Oil & Gas, and Site Services divisions.

There, Mr. Manning drove operational and commercial excellence improvements including the formulation of the company's Aftermarket program and the launch of Rotork's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) focused strategy to support the energy sector. Prior to joining Rotork in 2018, Mr. Manning was previously at Velocitel, a wireless infrastructure engineering and construction services company where he led site development service offerings to wireless carriers, tower companies and emerging network providers. Prior to this, Mr. Manning led field services company SiteSafe through a multi-year turnaround by driving robust process transformation and the introduction of new technologies to enhance production.

Earlier in his career, he headed Business Development, Operations and Solutions Engineering teams at optical fiber manufacturer Corning, telecommunications company Sprint Nextel and CB&I, a global EPC. Mr. Manning has an MBA from Virginia Tech and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.