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ABB Appoints Head of Discrete Automation and Motion Div.



Sami Atiya

ABB has appointed Sami Atiya to its Executive Committee as President of the Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division. He succeeds Pekka Tiitinen, who will return to his home country as Managing Director of ABB in Finland.

Atiya served Siemens for 18 years in the U.S. and Europe, most recently since 2011 as CEO of the Mobility and Logistics division and as CEO of the Computer Tomography unit from 2008 to 2011. Prior to that he held various leadership roles at Siemens Medical Solutions Inc. and Siemens Business Services. Before joining Siemens, Atiya was Co-Owner and Managing Director at Harald Balzer & Partner, a provider of software and services for project and process management, and Project Leader at Robert Bosch GmbH.

Atiya holds a Ph.D. in the field of robotics, sensors and data processing from the University of Wuppertal, obtained during his time at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, and a master's degree in electrical engineering and automation from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He will be based in Zurich, Switzerland.

For more information contact:

ABB Drives and Controls

16250 W. Glendale Drive

New Berlin, WI 53151

800-752-0696

www.abb.com/drives

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