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ABB names
Chun-Yuan Gu
President, AMEA,
and Frank Duggan
President, Europe
ABB announced that Chun-Yuan Gu,
Managing Director of ABB China, will
become President of the AMEA region. He
takes over from Frank Duggan, who has been
appointed President of Europe, succeeding
Bernhard Jucker, whose retirement was
announced earlier. As members of the ABB
Executive Committee, both Chun-Yuan Gu
and Frank Duggan will report to ABB CEO
Ulrich Spiesshofer. Both appointments will be
effective July 1, 2017.
“China represents one third of global growth
and is a very important market for ABB. I
am very pleased to welcome Chun-Yuan, a
China and industrial automation expert, to
our Executive Committee. He has a proven
track record of delivering superior growth
momentum and a profound knowledge
of Asia and emerging markets”, said
Spiesshofer. “He will have an important role
in implementing our Next Level strategy and
further accelerating our growth momentum,
for example, through our digital offering,
ABB AbilityTM. Chun-Yuan will be key
to integrating our announced acquisition
of B&R, an innovation leader in machine
and factory automation, in the industrial
segments of emerging markets”.
“At the same time, I would like to warmly
thank Frank for his excellent leadership in
the AMEA region and his contributions to the
Executive Committee over the past years.
With his extensive knowledge of ABB’s
global customers, markets and portfolio
and solid track record of enhancing growth
momentum, Frank is the ideal next leader for
Europe. He will continue to play a key role in
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the ongoing transformation of ABB towards
a more customer and market-oriented
company,” Spiesshofer added.
Chun-Yuan Gu and Frank Duggan have
spent their careers at ABB. Gu started at
ABB in Sweden in 1989 and held leadership
positions in R&D, mainly in Robotics, before
becoming Head of the Robotics Global
R&D Center in Shanghai in 2006. In January
2014, he assumed responsibility for ABB’s
operations in China. He is fluent in English,
Mandarin and Swedish, and holds a degree
in engineering from Jiao Tong University in
Shanghai and a Ph.D. in engineering from the
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm,
Sweden. Gu will continue as Managing
Director of ABB in China, in addition to his
new role, and will be based in Beijing.
Duggan succeeds Bernhard Jucker, who
will retire effective June 30, 2017, as
previously announced. Duggan joined ABB
in Sweden in 1984, and has held leadership
positions in many of ABB’s businesses
in Europe, Asia and the Gulf. In 2011, he
joined the Group Executive Committee
as Head of Global Markets and Region
Manager for India, Middle East and Africa,
before being appointed President of the
AMEA region in January 2015. In addition
to his responsibilities as President of the
Europe region, Frank will assume the role of
Managing Director of ABB in Ireland. ABB’s
current Managing Director of ABB in Ireland,
Tom O’Reilly, will retire at the end of June
2017, after a distinguished 32-year career at
ABB.