Stephen Abate

Stephen Abate is the Director of Service North America for Edwards Vacuum, LLC. Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, abatement solutions and related value-added services. Edwards is part of the Atlas Copco Group, a Sweden-based provider of industrial productivity solutions. 

Stephen is responsible for leading the field service operations organization for North America, which includes management of the regional and on-site field service teams, customer technical support team and field service EHS. Recently he has been involved as a project manager for the NA Service team with mergers, acquisitions and company integration activities. Stephen has more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning and tactical execution of a results oriented customer focused delivery of service solutions.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in business administration from Arizona State University’s.