Posted to News on 3rd Oct 2016, 16:12
Jürgen von Hollen named as new President of Universal Robots
Universal Robots, a Teradyne company, has named Jrgen von Hollen as President, effective immediately. He succeeds Enrico Krog Iversen who relinquished the post in June 2016 to pursue other interests.
Mr von Hollen was most recently the Executive President of the Engineering Solutions Division, which includes the Automation and Controls business of Bilfinger SE, in Mannheim, Germany, an international Engineering and Services company. In his role at Bilfinger, he was responsible for a global staff of nearly 10,000 and annual sales in excess of EUR1.0 billion. Mr von Hollen began his career with Daimler-Benz aerospace and held senior management roles at Daimler-Chrysler Services, Deutsche Telecom and Pentair.
Teradyne CEO Mark Jagiela says: "We're delighted to have Jrgen leading Universal Robots through this period of explosive growth. Jrgen's experience developing and leading global teams serving a broad range of industrial and commercial customers is tremendously important as we drive the adoption of easy to use, safe, and economical Cobots across the globe."
Mr von Hollen says: "I am excited to join Universal Robots as they work to fundamentally reshape automation across the global economy. The opportunity to lead and expand a high-powered organisation like UR with such a long-term, high-growth outlook is very rare and I look forward to working with our worldwide distributors, partners, and customers in the days ahead to realise the full potential of collaborative robots."
Mr von Hollen is based in Odense, Denmark. Go to www.universal-robots.com for further information about Universal Robots.
