Bruker Appoints Urban Faeh as President of its Bruker Optics Division
January 12 2010 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it has
appointed Mr. Urban Faeh as President of its Bruker Optics
division, effective immediately. In due course, Mr. Faeh will also
be appointed as Managing Director (Geschaeftsfuehrer) of Bruker
Optik GmbH in Ettlingen, Germany, where he will be based.
Frank Laukien, Bruker’s President and CEO, commented: “As Bruker
approaches its 50th anniversary, its Bruker Optics division has
emerged as a global technology and market leader in vibrational
spectroscopy and chemical microscopy, under the previous leadership
of Dr. Dirk Laukien, who continues on Bruker’s Board of Directors.
The Bruker Optics analytical instruments include Infrared and Raman
laboratory and process spectrometers, IR and Raman microscopy
systems, as well as industrial time-domain NMR analyzers. These
products are integrated into a broad range of high-performance
Bruker Optics analytical solutions for academic and governmental
research, quality and process control, such as pharmaceutical
Process Analytical Technologies (PAT), as well as for food,
biofuels and petrochemical analysis. The appointment of Mr. Urban
Faeh as division President signifies a continuation of Bruker
Optics’ commitment to ‘innovation for customers, delivered with
integrity’, to high quality and to profitable growth. With a strong
customer focus worldwide, a drive towards operational excellence
and continued innovation, Bruker is looking forward to a bright
future of its vibrational spectroscopy business.”
Biography
Mr. Urban Faeh received his Bachelor degree in Chemistry at the
University of Applied Sciences Winterthur in 1987. In 1998, he
obtained a Master of Business and Engineering (MBE) degree at the
KS Kaderschule St.Gallen. After more than 10 years of experience in
the food (Nestle Research) and specialty chemical (Sika AG)
industries, Mr. Faeh joined Bruker in 1998 as Bruker Optics Sales
Manager in Switzerland. In 2000, he was appointed Managing Director
of Bruker Optics Switzerland, and later he also assumed regional
sales management responsibilities for Italy, Spain, Portugal,
France and the UK.
ABOUT BRUKER CORPORATION
Bruker Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance
scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials
research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis. For more
information about Bruker Corporation, please visit
www.bruker.com.
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