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. |