Karsten Newbury is senior vice president and general manager of Mainstream Engineering Software for Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division. In his current role, he is responsible for leading the company’s go-to-market efforts for Velocity Series business on a global basis. Velocity Series is a comprehensive family of modular, yet integrated solutions addressing PLM in the mid-market. He works in partnership with Sales, Products and Marketing to aggressively target and develop strategic and geographic growth opportunities.

Newbury has a strong history of successful organizational management with a demonstrated ability to build winning teams and improve business performance.

Prior to his current assignment he served as Vice President, Integration where he was responsible for overall project management for the $US 3.7 billion acquisition of UGS (now Siemens PLM Software) into Siemens. Under his leadership the integration team was able to maintain high customer and employee confidence and exceed financial plans while positioning the company for strong future growth within Siemens.

Newbury came to Siemens PLM Software from Siemens Energy & Automation (SE&A) where he was most recently General Manager, Process Automation Solutions. In that position he developed and deployed a comprehensive turnaround program for the business that put it on a profitable growth path. Also while at SE&A he served as Business Manager, Manufacturing Execution Systems, responsible for starting up North American Manufacturing Execution Software (MES) business for Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D). In three years he was able to build U.S. market awareness of Siemens from no ranking to #6 of Top 100 software suppliers and successfully ramp up sales that exceeded plan.

Following internships at SAP, Banque Nationale Agricole, Siemens Management Consulting and Mercedes Benz, he began his career at Siemens as Marketing Manager for Siemens A&D CD. He later moved to Siemens AG as Executive Board Assistant, Industry, where he was able to apply his extensive skills in strategic planning and project management.

Karsten holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany with a dual major in computer integrated manufacturing and business administration.

關於 Siemens PLM Software

西門子工業自動化事業部旗下機構 Siemens PLM Software 是全球領先的產品生命週期管理（ PLM ）軟體和服務廠商，在全球有 71,000 個客戶，約 700 萬套裝機量，總部位於美國德克薩斯州普萊諾市。以開放式的解決方案與企業協同工作，幫助他們將更多的創意轉換為成功的產品。欲瞭解關於 Siemens PLM Software 產品和服務的更多資訊，請造訪網站www.siemens.com/plm。

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西門子工業業務領域(總部位於德國埃爾蘭根)是世界領先的環保型生產、交通運輸和建築技術供應商。憑藉集成式自動控制技術和綜合性的工業專用解決方案,西門子在工業與基礎設施領域提高了客戶的生產能力、效率和靈活性。在 2010 財年(統計截止日期:2010年11月30日),西門子工業部門的營業收入總計約為302 億歐元(不包括歐司朗公司)。截止2010年9月底,西門子工業部門的的員工總數約為164,000 名(不包括歐司朗公司)。 www.siemens.com/industry