ABB appoints Guido Jouret as Chief Digital Officer

Internet of Things pioneer to drive next level of ABB’s digital solutions
Zurich, Switzerland, September 05, 2016 – ABB has appointed Guido Jouret, a
pioneer of the Internet of Things, as Chief Digital Officer, reporting to ABB’s
CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer, effective October 1, 2016. Jouret will lead the next
level of development and deployment of ABB’s digital solutions for customers
globally and across all businesses.

Jouret is a citizen of both the United States and Belgium, with long experience
in Silicon Valley. He served for 20 years at Cisco after obtaining a PhD in
Computer Science. His most recent role at Cisco was as General Manager of the
Internet of Things division, which aims to connect billions of devices to the
internet across a wide range of industries.

Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Cisco’s
Emerging Technologies Group, a unit responsible for incubating new businesses.
Under his leadership, the team created nine new start-ups, including those,
which became Cisco’s TelePresence and Internet of Things groups. He has lived in
12 countries including France, Singapore and the United States. Additionally, he
worked for Cisco as IT Director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region
and in the Internet Business Solutions Group.

Jouret left Cisco in 2014 to join Envision Energy, where he led the software
products business, including a platform for the emerging energy internet. Jouret
has been Chief Technical Officer at Nokia Technologies since April 2015, and
recently drove a major acquisition in the digital health sector.

“Guido Jouret is a proven leader in the digital revolution, with a solid track
record in creating and growing new businesses as well as in the digital
transformation of mature businesses. His global digitalization experience spans
across companies in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure,” said
CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. “With his customer and innovation focus, and his
extensive international technology business experience, he is the ideal person
to take the software-led differentiation of our offerings to the next level and
to cement ABB’s pioneering technology leadership, building on our more than 40
years’ history in embedded, control and applications software and our strong
position in the Internet of Things, Services and People.”

Jouret will work from ABB’s Silicon Valley and Zurich offices.

He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine in the UK in 1991, and has a bachelor’s degree in
Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US. He is
married and has two children.

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leading global technology company in power and automation
that enables utility, industry, and transport and infrastructure customers to
improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of
companies operates in roughly 100 countries and employs about 135,000 people.
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