Pekka Tiitinen is the Managing Director Finland at ABB. Before that, he has been the Head of the Discrete Automation & Motion (DM) Division at ABB Ltd. since September 15, 2013. Mr. Tiitinen served as the Global Head of Drives & Controls Business at ABB Ltd. from January 2013 to September 15, 2013. Before that, he served as Head of the global Low Voltage Drives business for 10 years, with a very successful track record particularly in China, the US and Europe. During this period he grew the drives business organically, led important technological innovations and improved profitability sustainably. From 2006 to 2010, he was also a Regional Division Manager in ABB′s Northern Europe region, which comprises 20 countries from Ireland in the west to Russia in the east. He joined ABB as a Design Engineer in the drives business in 1990 and has held several management roles in the business since 1993. Before joining ABB, he worked for Cimcorp Inc. in the robotics industry in the US and in Finland. Mr. Tiitinen has a degree in electrical engineering, specializing in drives and robot automation, from the University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland.