Otto Preiss
Otto Preiss is to sign up with the administration board of Rolls-Royce Powers Systems as Chief Operating Officer (COO) on May 1.
Preiss signs up with the business, whose brand names consist of MTU as well as Bergen Engines, after a greater than thirty years profession at ABB, where he was most just recently Group Senior Vice President, acting in the duty ofChief Operating Officer Digital Prior to that directed ABB’s worldwide Motors as well as Generators department. Other worldwide ABB companies for which Preiss has actually thought obligation consist of business R&D right into Power Technologies as well as the Swiss Corporate Research Center.
After finishing in electric design at the University of Applied Sciences as well as Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Preiss took place to attain a Master’s level in computer technology at the University of Colorado, complying with which he made his doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
“The new corporate position we have created will enable us to drive the transformation of our business in an even more focused way,” stated Axel Arendt, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Rolls-Royce Power Systems “With his electrical engineering and IT expertise, and as a highly experienced international executive, Otto Preiss is ideally equipped for the task.”
Andreas Schell, Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce Power Systems, is expecting collaborating with Preiss: “I’m delighted to have Otto Preiss on board, from whose expert support we will benefit greatly as we press on with implementing our strategy and mastering the challenges that lie ahead.”
