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Title: President & CEO Company: Siemens Industry: Technology

Roland Busch creates technologies with purpose by merging the physical and digital worlds to drive the next era of industrial automation, smart infrastructure and transportation. As President and CEO of Siemens, he leads not just the company’ s own manufacturing, but creates technologies and partnerships that disrupt and push forward the industry as a whole. Since taking on the role, the company’ s net income has grown from US $ 7.8bn in FY2021 to a historic high of US $ 12.1bn in FY2025. NVIDIA and Microsoft are just some of the partnerships he has forged to scale AI and cloud computing in industrial settings. Roland is leading efforts to build the industrial metaverse and streamline automation for factories around the world. His background in quantum chronodynamics has influenced his leadership style, breaking down complicated organisational or technological problems to their core. He advocates for decision-making to be pushed down the organisational chart to create agile, accountable teams.

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