Siemens appoints Juergen Maier as new UK chief executive

Roland Aurich, the current chief executive, will step down from his role and retire from Siemens after working for the company for more than 28 years. He will return to Sweden to undertake other business and personal interests. He has held senior positions within the global organisation including CEO of Siemens in Sweden and more recently CEO of Siemens in Canada before joining Siemens plc in January 2012. Maier has been a member of the Siemens UK executive management board and the managing director of Siemens UK and Ireland Industry Sector since 2008, the leading supplier of manufacturing technologies to industrial customers. He said: "The UK is a core market for Siemens, and we must continue to work in partnership with businesses and government to make the most of the economic recovery. I look forward to shaping our business to meet new domestic and global economic challenges." Prior to his last role as managing director of Siemens Industry which he has held since October 2008, Mair held a number of senior positions within Siemens in the UK and Germany including two divisional managing director roles and manufacturing director of the award winning drives factory in Congleton, Cheshire. He joined Siemens in 1986 after obtaining a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens sponsored graduate programme. Born 1964 in Germany with Austrian nationality, Maier came to the UK in 1974.