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President, Process Automation Business Area
Member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd
2001
General Manager Program, Harvard Business School, U.S.
1991–1994
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
1986–1991
Degree in Electrical Engineering (Dipl. Ing.), Karlsruhe University, Germany, including diploma thesis at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique, Strasbourg, France
2015 to date
President, Process Automation Business Area (known as Industrial Automation from 2017-2020)
Member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd, Switzerland
2011–2014
Region Manager Central Europe, Country Manager Germany
2005–2011
Chief Technology Officer, ABB Ltd, Switzerland
2003–2005
Chief Technology Officer, ABB Automation Technologies Division (global), and President, ABB Automation, Germany
2001–2002
Head of Technology, ABB Industries Division (global), and Head of Industries Division, ABB Switzerland
1999–2001
Managing Director, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
1999–2000
Corporate Program Manager, Automation Technologies (global)
1997–1999
Department Manager, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
1994–1997
Research Scientist and Project Manager, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
2010–2022
Member of the Board of Directors of Metall Zug AG, Switzerland
1999–2002
Lecturer, Automatic Control Lab
1991–1994
Research and Teaching Assistant, Technical Chemistry Lab