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Dr. Juergen W. Gromer is president and vice chairman of Tyco Electronics. He formerly held senior management positions at AMP including senior vice president of worldwide sales and services, president of the global automotive division, and vice president of Central and Eastern Europe, and general manager of AMP Germany. Under Gromer’s responsibility, Tyco Electronics became the largest passive electronic components supplier in the world, through both organic growth as well as strategic acquisitions that broadened the company’s offering to the automotive, communications, computer and other industries. Working with his management team, he streamlined the company’s operations into vertically integrated industry and product-based business units, each with profit center responsibility, enabling better customer focus and response. In 2005, Tyco Electronics’ revenue rose to $12 billion. Moving forward, Tyco Electronics’ strategy is to concentrate on the expansion of its business through organic growth with existing and new products, gaining market share in existing and new markets such as China, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South Americas. In addition, Tyco Electronics is concentrating on further cost improvements and customer service in order to expand its competitiveness. Gromer has more than twenty years of AMP and Tyco Electronics experience, serving in a wide variety of regional and global assignments. Gromer received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is chairman of the board of the society for Economic Development of the District Bergstrasse/Hessen, a member of SAE and the Advisory Board of Commerzbank, a director of the board and vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, and a member of the board of RWE Rhein-Ruhr AG. About Tyco Electronics Tyco Electronics is one of the world’s largest suppliers of electronic components, including connectors, switches, relays, circuit protection devices, touch screens, wire and cable, as well as fiber optic and wireless components and systems. With key brands such as AMP, Raychem, M/A-COM, and Elo TouchSystems, Tyco Electronics serves hundreds of thousands of customers in the automotive, telecommunications, industrial, and computer/consumer electronics industries.
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