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Guenther Lauber has succeeded Tilo Brandis as new President of the Electronics Assembly Systems (EA) at Siemens A&D. Brandis has moved to the U.S. as President of UGS, a leading provider of product lifecycle management software and services that was recently acquired by Siemens and is now a division of Siemens Automation & Drives. Together with Dr. Alexander Gruschwitz, the CFO of Siemens EA, Lauber will head the entire A&D EA global division headquartered in Munich with Centers of Competence in the U.S. (Atlanta, Georgia), Shanghai and Singapore, and support sites all over the world. Lauber is intimately familiar with electronics manufacturing and Siplace placement machines. Lauber joined Siemens in 1986 and has held various management positions with strategic as well as profit-and-loss responsibilities in the EA sales organization in Europe and later in North and South America. In the U.S., long-term Siplace Vice President of sales Jeff Timms will succeed Guenter Lauber as the General Manager of the U.S. business.