Dr. William Grossmann
CIO ABB Germany, Heidelberg, Germany

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Dr. Grossmann holds the position of Chief Information Officer for ABB Germany. He is responsible for developing strategic directions and the coordination for IT among more than 50 ABB operating companies in Germany.

Dr. Grossmann is also responsible for planning and implementation of a regional IT infrastructure support concept including ABB's corporate network, global information management, software/hardware optimization and harmonization, and also holds concurrently the position of ABB Corporate Research Program Manager, responsible for the Engineering Systems Integration (ESI) Program. The ESI program has as its main task the identification, acquisition, and tech-transfer of maturing information technologies into ABB business units worldwide to enable and improve business and engineering processes.