Juergen W. Gromer has been the President of Tyco Electronics (Tyco) since April 1999 a position from which he will retire on December 31 2007. He has served on Tyco’s board of directors since its inception in June 2007 and has announced that he plans to remain on Tyco’s board of directors beyond his retirement. Dr. Gromer has more than twenty years of experience at Tyco and AMP Incorporated (acquired by Tyco in 1999) serving in a wide variety of regional and global assignments including Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales and Service; President Global Automotive Division Corporate Vice President; Vice President of Central and Eastern Europe; and General Manager of AMP Germany. He is chairman of the board of the Society for Economic Development of the District Bregstrasse/Hessen a member of SAE and the Advisory Board of Commercebank a director of the board and Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany a member of the board of RWE Rhein-Ruhr AG and a member of the board of WABCO Holdings Inc.. Dr. Gromer received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Stuttgart Germany. |