Serving as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens’ Wireless Modules division since 2006, Norbert
Muhrer achieved much in the two years of his leadership. In this time, Wireless
Modules’ market share grew steadily and the division won the biggest contracts in
its history.
With more than
20 years industry experience, Mr. Muhrer has held management positions across
the globe. Prior to joining the Wireless Modules division, he was President and
CEO of Siemens Communication Networks in Beijing.
Mr. Muhrer had gained rich management experience before taking up the
assignment in China, serving
Siemens in the United States,
Thailand, and Germany.
After earning a
Master’s degree at the Technical College of Electronics and Communications in Salzburg, Austria
in 1985, Mr. Muhrer launched his career at Siemens Public Communication
Networks.
Before taking up the position of Cinterion Wireless Modules’ Chief
Technology Officer, Marian Baran was Vice President Wireless Modules and headed
Research & Development at Siemens Wireless Modules. After nine years with
the German telecommunications company DeTeWe Berlin, where he helmed Product Development,
he returned to Siemens in 1998 to head the Digital Products business unit’s R&D
department. Mr. Baran launched his career at Siemens in 1985 as a development
engineer and project manager, steering various projects in the Private Network business
unit.
Mr. Baran’s alma mater is Poland’s
Opole Technical University,
where he also served as a research assistant. He has also gathered a wide range
of professional experience working as a journalist and an engineer.
Erik Brenneis
Chief Sales OfficerErik Brenneis is
Cinterion Wireless Modules’ Chief Sales Officer. He had previously held the
position of Vice President Sales at Siemens Wireless Modules, where from 2005
he was tasked with responsibility for global sales. Mr. Brenneis occupied the
same position at Landis+Gyr AG in Zug, Switzerland, from
2001 to 2005. Before that, his career trajectory saw him serving Siemens in various
job positions, gain professional experience in Germany
and the U.S.A.
Mr. Brenneis holds
a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration.
Andreas Niemann
Chief Financial OfficerBefore joining
Cinterion Wireless Modules in 2008, Chief Financial Officer Andreas Niemann was
Director of Nokia Siemens Networks Ltd. in Thailand
and Head of Finance and Controlling for the region encompassing Thailand, Vietnam,
Bangladesh, and Korea.
As Senior Vice
President at Siemens Ltd. in Thailand
from 2004 and 2007, Mr. Niemann headed the Commercial Management Communications
Division in Bangkok.
In the preceding years, he had served Siemens Wireless Modules as Head of
Business Administration Product Management and Services, and held various sales
positions at Siemens.
Andreas Niemann
earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Mannheim University of
Cooperative Education.
Lars Thyroff
Chief Marketing OfficerCinterion
Wireless Modules’ Chief Marketing Officer Lars Thyroff heads the Corporate Development
department and steers the overall business strategy. Other duties include
managing the portfolio, products, operators, and marketing. Mr. Thyroff’s
previous posting had been Vice President of Product and Portfolio Management at
Siemens Wireless Modules.
Before joining
the management of Siemens Wireless Modules in 2003, Mr. Thyroff was General Manager
of Siemens Mobile’s global procurement organization in Japan and Korea. He served Siemens for more
than ten years, holding various international management positions at Siemens
Mobile Communications. Before that, he was Sales and Product Manager with the Arrow
Group.
Mr. Thyroff holds
a degree in Precision Engineering and Information Technology from Frankfurt
University of Applied Sciences.
Akhan Urgun
Chief Operations Officer
Chief Operations Officer Akhan Urgun is responsible for Cinterion
Wireless Modules’ Supply Chain Management and Procurement. Prior to taking up this
position, Mr. Urgun was Vice President of Global Procurement of Production
Material at Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices in Bocholt, Germany.
Holding various positions in Siemens Procurement departments from 1996 to
2004, Mr. Urgun Initially served the Private Networks division, and later Siemens
ICM. When ICM and ICN merged to form the Communications (Com) division in 2004,
Mr. Urgun became Director of Local Procurement for two Siemens locations at Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort.
Mr. Urgun completed an Industrial Business Manager training program at
Siemens, where he also earned European Merchant qualifications.
Doris Wieder
Vice President Human Resources
Vice President of
Human Resources Doris Wieder joined Siemens
Wireless Modules in 2008. From 2000 to 2007, she had held various top personnel
management positions at the E.ON Group. From 2003 to 2007, Ms. Wieder served
the Group enterprise Degussa Initiators, a fully owned subsidiary of Degussa AG,
in Munich, Germany, as Head of HR. Prior to
that, she was a HR manager at the Degussa site in Trostberg.
From 2000 to
2003, Ms. Wieder headed Human Resources at the construction company Viterra
Baupartner AG in Bochum,
where she managed recruiting, employee development, and administration. Before
joining Viterra, she was based in Moscow
for three years as a Commercial Manager at Zeiss-Schott.
Ms. Wieder earned
a Law degree from the University of Passau, Germany, in 1994, and then worked
as a junior lawyer in Bavaria and Sydney, Australia.
Jörg Erdmann
Vice President Quality Management
Prior
to taking up the position of Cinterion Wireless Modules’ Vice
President Quality Management, Jörg Erdmann headed Quality
Management and Services at Siemens Wireless Modules. Before that, he
helmed the Technical Planning Group at Siemens Medical Solutions. Mr.
Erdmann joined
Siemens in 1995 when he signed on with Siemens Electromechanical
Components as a
development engineer for micro machining. Earlier he had served
Biotronik, a German
electronic engineering firm, as a quality engineer and Inkjet Systems
as a development
engineer.
Mr. Erdmann holds a degree
in micro mechanical engineering from the Technical
University Berlin.
