Dr. Helmuth Ludwig (born September 19, 1962 in

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) is Global Head of Information Technology at Siemens AG, to which he was appointed in October 2016. Ludwig has held a range of strategic leadership positions in his more than 20-year career at Siemens.

Professional career

Ludwig joined

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...

in 1990 after graduating college. He has worked in corporate regional strategy development for the company in multiple countries including Germany, Kazakhstan, Argentina and United States. When Siemens acquired PLM Software (now

Siemens Digital Industries Software Siemens Digital Industries Software (formerly UGS and then Siemens PLM Software) is an American computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. The company is a business unit of Siemens, operates un ...

) in 2007, Ludwig was appointed president and is credited for successfully leading the integration of the organization’s 50 legal entities and multiple facilities across 26 countries into Siemens. He worked with the management team to develop long-term strategic direction. Siemens PLM software was recently used in the design of the Mars Rover ''Curiosity''. Ludwig is a regular speaker on advanced manufacturing topics including

additive manufacturing 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer ...

, industrial software,

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...

and

information integration Information integration (II) is the merging of information from heterogeneous sources with differing conceptual, contextual and typographical representations. It is used in data mining and consolidation of data from unstructured or semi-structured ...

. He has delivered commencement addresses at

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(ASU) and at

Southern Polytechnic State University Southern Polytechnic State University (also called Southern Poly; abbreviated SPSU) was a public university, public, co-educational, state university in Marietta, Georgia, United States approximately northwest of downtown Atlanta. Until 2015, ...

(SPSU), where Siemens has had a longstanding relationship.

Memberships and Associations

He currently teaches as an

adjunct professor An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, but the term is gen ...

Cox School of Business The Edwin L. Cox School of Business is an American business school that is part of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. The SMU Cox School of Business is headquartered in four buildings on SMU's 210-acre main campus five miles ...

, Southern Methodist University, in Dallas covering International Corporate Strategy. He is a founding president of Rotary Club of

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, which is the first Rotary Club in Central Asia and cofounder and former president of Rotary International’s Spanish-German Executive Committee. He is also a current board member of Siemens Industry, Inc. and Siemens Electrical Ltd., member on the Board of Trustees for Manufacturers Association for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), a member of Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (DCFR) and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Business School

KIMEP University KIMEP University (formerly: Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Forecasting) is a private university founded in 1992 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. History KIMEP was founded in 1992 under the instructions of then-President Nursultan Naza ...

in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Education

Ludwig graduated from

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

, Germany in 1988 with a master's degree in industrial engineering. Over the course of his time at University of Karlsruhe, he completed several internships at

Siemens AG Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the posit ...

, Arthur Andersen & Co. and McKinsey & Company, Inc. In 1990, he received a Master of Business Administration from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

and later completed his doctorate on ”Strategic Benchmarking of Multinational Companies” from the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany in 1996. Ludwig is fluent in German, English and Spanish.

References

External links

Siemens Industry Sector
Executive bio and photo
Siemens Industry, Inc. official website
North America
5 Quick Questions: Siemens’ Helmuth Ludwig
Manufacturing.net article
Siemens Industry Executive Bullish on US Manufacturing Renaissance
Automation World article {{DEFAULTSORT:Ludwig, Helmuth 1962 births German chief executives Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Living people Siemens University of Chicago alumni