Shirin O'Connor is a senior executive with more than 34 years of leadership across large multinational public companies and the private sector, including Big Wat Digital, Microsoft, Air Products & Chemical, and Fluor Corporation. She has held full P&L responsibility and is recognized for her expertise in engineering, supply chain, and construction (EPC) strategy, and for delivering complex capital programs from initial business planning through operational readiness.
She currently serves as President of Datacenter Development & Construction at Big Wat Digital, LLC, where she leads the strategy and delivery of datacenters integrated with behind-the-meter power generation.
Most recently in a corporate role, O'Connor was Corporate Vice President of EPC for Microsoft's global cloud and AI datacenter portfolio, overseeing annual investment of more than $50 billion. She transformed the organization's EPC capabilities and execution methodology, enabling a 3X increase in computing capacity across 350+ datacenters in 70 regions, while cutting time to market and total cost per MW by 20%.
At Air Products, she led the global engineering, supply chain, and quality functions and oversaw the $12 billion+ clean energy capital expansion program across EMEA and India. Earlier, at Fluor Corporation, she held a series of executive roles, including Vice President of Nuclear SMR Technology Delivery, Corporate Engineering leader, and project executive for multi-billion-dollar facilities in energy and chemicals, mining and metals, and biotechnology, with accountability for safety, quality, time to market, and P&L performance.
An experienced board member with deep expertise in corporate and compensation governance, O'Connor is an independent director of MYR Group Inc. (public company), where she chairs the Compensation Committee. She is a NACD Certified Director.
O'Connor holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University.