Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 12 April 2017

ABB, the pioneering technology leader, has appointed Mr Mostafa AlGuezeri as the new Managing Director for its operations in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf countries.

AlGuezeri replaces Frank Duggan, who holds the dual role of Managing Director for UAE and Gulf countries as well as President of the Asia, Middle East and Africa region. As announced earlier this week, Frank will become President of the Europe region for ABB.

AlGuezeri will lead the ABB business with a key focus on strengthening relationships with ABB’s customers in the utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure sectors, to help accelerate sustainable value creation and ensure efficient operation of their businesses.

“Mostafa brings a wealth of experience to the role and to the region, where he has worked in ABB for the last twenty years. He was most recently Country Managing Director for ABB in Qatar,” said Frank Duggan President, Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) and member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd.

“ABB is ideally positioned to make even greater contributions to the sustainable growth of the UAE and to deliver on the relevant areas of the country’s Vision 2021 plan,” added Duggan.

Under ABB’s global ‘Next Level’ corporate strategy, a key driver for ABB in the UAE and Gulf countries will be the successful deployment of ABB Ability™, the Group’s digital offering that builds on ABB’s pioneering technology and more than four decades of industrial digital leadership. It will enhance customers’ ability to innovate and compete in the emerging digital-industrial marketplace and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.

By combining ABB’s deep domain expertise with network connectivity and the latest digital technologies and innovations, ABB Ability™ creates powerful solutions and services that solve real business problems and produce tangible business opportunities, helping consumption.

ABB has operated it in the UAE for over 40 years. It currently operates from two corporate offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with a manufacturing and servcie facility in the Al Quoz industrial area in Dubai. At its Abu Dhabi office, ABB also operates a 1000sq m ‘Learning Zone’ showcasing ABB’s products, services and solutions in a unique collaborative training environment.

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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 more than a 125-year history of innovation, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization and driving the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees. www.abb.com

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