Schneider makes strategy appointment

Robert Immelé joins Schneider

Electric as Head of Strategy

and Acquisitions. As a partner

with Bearing Point (formerly Andersen

Business Consulting) since 2001, he advised

numerous companies and investment funds

on strategy, acquisition and post acquisition

integration issues.

He will be responsible for defining

the Group’s strategy and implementing

it throughout the Schneider Electric

entities (activities division and operating

divisions), developing acquisition strategies

and supervising their full and proper

implementation (management of acquisition

and post-acquisition process), and economic

intelligence.

Prior to Bearing Point, Immelé was

in strategic consulting with the Boston

Consulting Group in Munich and Paris,

head of production at Praxair, the worldwide

industrial gas specialists, and a research

engineer with Rhône-Poulenc.