Siemens : Matthias Rebellius appointed new CEO of Building Technologies Division
October 06, 2014 at 09:07 am EDT
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Munich, 2014-Oct-06
Managing Board and Supervisory Board approve change as of January 1, 2015
Current CEO Johannes Milde to continue serving in advisory capacity for some time to come
Siemens' Building Technologies Division will have a new CEO on January 1, 2015. Matthias Rebellius (49) is succeeding Johannes Milde (61), who is resigning as Division CEO at the end of this year. Milde will continue to support the company for some time to come.
Previously CEO of the Building Technology Division's Fire Safety and Security Business Unit, Rebellius currently heads the Division's Americas Region. "Matthias Rebellius knows the building technologies business extremely well - from both a global and a regional perspective. I'm pleased that we've been able to find an experienced Siemens expert to take over from Johannes Milde. I'd also like to thank Mr. Milde for his outstanding work at Building Technologies. He's led the Division successfully for more than seven years," said Roland Busch, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG.
Building Technologies is the world market leader in safe, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly buildings and infrastructure. As a technology partner, consultant, service provider, system integrator and product supplier, Building Technologies offers fire safety, security, building automation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning as well as energy management products and services.
Siemens AG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of electronic and electro-technical equipments. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by family of products as follows:
- digital industrial equipment (28.2%): automated production, assembly, logistics and monitoring systems, etc.;
- medical equipment (27.8%): medical imaging systems, laboratory diagnostics and hearing aid systems, etc.;
- smart building and infrastructure solutions (25.6%): energy transition solutions, HVAC products (heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems), building security systems (fire detection and protection systems, access control, video surveillance and intrusion detection systems, etc.), building management systems, etc.;
- mobility solutions and systems (13.5%): rail vehicles, rail automation systems, rail electrification systems, digital and cloud-based solutions, etc.
The remaining net sales (4.9%) are primarily from financial activities (leasing, equipment and project financing, financial consulting services, etc.).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (16.3%), Europe/CIS/Africa/Middle East (30.8%), the United States (23.9%), America (5.2%), Asia and Australia (23.8%).