Gerhard Schulmeyer

Gerhard Hans Schulmeyer (born 1938) is a German American businessman. From 1994 until 1998, he was president and

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in Germany, and between 1999 and December 2001, he was president and CEO of Siemens Corporation in the United States. Since January 2002 he has been Professor of Practice at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

. He serves on the board of directors of

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Inc.,

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, and Korn/Ferry International

and Schulmeyer graduated from the

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (previously known as the Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main) is a public University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences provides about ...

with a B.Sc. in electronic engineering and from the

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with a B.Sc. in international business. He also holds a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the Sloan Fellows program of the

. MIT Sloan School of Management alumni American chief executives MIT Sloan Fellows 1938 births Living people MIT Sloan School of Management faculty {{US-business-bio-1930s-stub 20th-century American businesspeople Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences alumni