Norwalk, CT, January 28, 2008 – ABB announced two key appointments to its North American management team. Greg Scheu, currently Senior Vice President of the company’s Automation Products division in North America, will now head ABB’s Power Products division in North America, the largest of ABB’s businesses in the region. Filling Scheu’s vacancy in Automation Products for North America will be Rick Hepperla, who currently serves as Local Business Unit manager of ABB’s North American low voltage drives unit based in New Berlin, Wisconsin.
The appointments are effective February 15, and were announced at ABB’s Power World event in Jacksonville, Florida last week. Enrique Santacana, President and CEO of ABB Inc., noted that the moves reflected the company’s bullish outlook on the North American market.
“We've enjoyed market-leading success over the past several years, and this region had a lot to do with that,” said Santacana. “Greg and Rick have both been instrumental in the execution of our overall strategy focusing on energy efficiency, grid reliability and industrial productivity. I look forward to working closely with both of them going forward.”
Both Scheu and Hepperla will report to Santacana as well as taking up roles in the global management teams of their respective divisions, Scheu reporting to Bernhard Jucker in Power Products and Hepperla to Tom Sjoekvist in Automation Products.
Scheu will focus on the strategic development and continued profitable growth of Power Products in the region, focusing particularly on the growing need of utilities and industrial customers for reliable electricity. Since joining ABB in 2001, Scheu has held several senior leadership positions in the Automation Products division, most recently as Region Division manager for North America.
Hepperla will focus on the strategic development and continued profitable growth of Automation Products in the region. He joined ABB in 2003 as Local Business Unit manager of low voltage drives in the U.S., and guided the unit to record performance.
ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs more than 111,000 people. The company's North American operations, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, employ about 12,000 people in 20 manufacturing and other major facilities.
