ABB names Chun-Yuan Gu President, AMEA and Frank Duggan President, Europe

ABB announced that Managing Director of ABB China, Chun-Yuan Gu 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.

Both appointments will be effective from July 1, 2017. As members of the ABB Executive Committee, both Gu and Frank will report to ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer.

Gu started at ABB in Sweden in 1989 as leadership positions in R&D, mainly in Robotics, before becoming Head of the Robotics Global R&D Center in Shanghai in 2006. 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 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.

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