ABB Ltd., the Zurich, Switzerland-based provider of power and automation technologies, has announced that Joseph M. Hogan will become chief executive officer of the ABB Group, effective Sept. 1. Hogan, who is 51, is currently CEO of GE Healthcare, a medical diagnostic technology and biosciences unit of General Electric Co., and is member of the GE Senior Executive Council.Hogan will fill the CEO position held previously at ABB by Fred Kindle, who left the post on Feb. 13, due to what ABB said at the time were “irreconcilable differences about how to lead the company.” Hogan replaces Michel Demaré, ABB’s chief financial officer, who has held the CEO position on an interim basis since Kindle’s departure. Demaré will continue to serve as ABB’s CFO.
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