Robert Itschner, market- and customer-oriented team player with a proven track record in driving profitable growth, has been appointed Country Managing Director, Switzerland, effective July 1, 2018. He succeeds Remo Luetolf, who will retire from ABB, as previously announced.
Robert Itschner’s current role is Head of Marketing & Sales for the Robotics & Motion division. He joined ABB in 1993 and has held a number of roles in research & development, supply chain, local business unit and division management in Germany and Switzerland, as well as Business Unit Managing Director Power Conversion.
”On behalf of ABB, I welcome Robert Itschner as Country Managing Director, Switzerland, to the European management team. His proven track record in driving profitable growth as a market- and customer-oriented team player over his 25-year career in ABB positions him well to further strengthen ABB as a digital technology leader serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure in our home market of Switzerland,” said Frank Duggan, President of ABB’s Europe region.
Rober Itschner is a Swiss citizen and holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from HSR University in Rapperswil, Switzerland, as well as a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University in Illinois, United States.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from any power plant to any plug and automating industries from natural resources to finished products. As title partner of Formula E, the fully electric international FIA motorsport class, ABB is pushing the boundaries of e-mobility to contribute to a sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 135,000 employees, 6,000 of whom are in Switzerland. www.abb.com
