Matthias Rebellius is the new CEO at Siemens Switzerland
The Managing Board of Siemens AG has appointed Matthias Rebellius (54) as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the regional company Siemens Switzerland. He will succeed Siegfried Gerlach, who is retiring at the age of 65, at the beginning of April 2019.
Matthias Rebellius is the new CEO of Siemens Switzerland. He is also Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Smart Infrastructure (SI), the new operating company of Siemens AG. From April 2019, SI's global headquarters in Zug will manage the company's 70,000 employees worldwide who work in building services and power distribution. With a business volume of around €14 billion (pro forma figures), SI is one of the world's largest industrial headquarters based in Switzerland.
"Siemens has already been active in Switzerland for 125 years," says Matthias Rebellius. "Thanks to our broad portfolio and our expertise in digitalization, we will continue to play a formative role here in the decades to come. In addition, the fact that we manage Smart Infrastructure's global business from Zug is of course very positive for our country."
Matthias Rebellius has headed the globally active Siemens Building Technologies Division (BT) for the past four years. Under his leadership, the building technology activities have developed into one of the most important earnings drivers of Siemens AG. Rebellius, who has a degree in engineering, had already worked in Switzerland for almost ten years. Rebellius then worked in the U.S. from 2012 to 2015, where he was responsible for BT's business in the Americas region as a whole.
Siemens employs more than 5700 people at over 20 locations in Switzerland, making it one of the country's largest industrial employers. The company has a strong market position in this country, particularly in the areas of building and energy technology, industrial automation and drive technology, rail automation, and road traffic and medical technology.
