Emerson Names New President of Emerson Network Power Service
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Columbus, Ohio [December 12, 2006] - Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity(TM), today announced that Frank Bibens has been named president of the group's service business, that serves as the support arm for all Liebert equipment.
Bibens is filling the position recently held by Scott Dysert, who is now president of Liebert North America. Prior to joining Emerson Network Power, Bibens spent 28 years holding various service-related management positions with the General Electric Company (GE), including general manager of the global operations and maintenance business for GE Energy and General Manager of International Contractual Services for GE Power Generation Services. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Texas A&M University.
"With his proven record of success, Frank is a valuable addition to Emerson Network Power," said Bob Bauer, Emerson group vice president and Liebert Worldwide president. "His significant experience in service businesses combined with his leadership skills and global background provides a solid foundation for driving our service initiatives in North America and achieving our goals for operating and growing a world-class service business."
The service business of Emerson Network Power offers a wide variety of maintenance, service and management programs designed to keep critical facilities operating continuously and smoothly around the world. Also, the business maintains the largest technical support and customer response system in the industry with more than 1,000 factory-trained and company-employed service professionals in more than 100 service centers. Offerings include UPS, battery replacement, facility power audits, DC power, mission-critical cooling services, enterprise remote monitoring, professional assessment services, and facility service management.
"I'm excited to be joining the industry-leading service business of Emerson Network Power," said Bibens. "Technology has become such an intricate and vital part of business that downtime is unacceptable. Service is essential to achieving the continuous availability business demands and no one is better equipped to deliver critical power and cooling services than Emerson Network Power. I look forward to using my experience to ensure we continue to deliver the services that support customers."
For more information on Liebert technologies and services from Emerson Network Power, visit www.liebert.com.
About Emerson Network Power
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR), is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity(TM). The company is the trusted source for adaptive and ultra-reliable solutions that enable and protect its customers' business-critical technology infrastructures. Backed by the largest global services organization in the industry, Emerson Network Power offers a full range of innovative power, precision cooling and connectivity products and services for computer, communications, healthcare and industrial systems. Key product brands within the Emerson Network Power family include Liebert, ASCO, Astec, and Lorain. The Liebert Adaptive Architecture creates power, cooling and monitoring platforms for IT systems that combine high reliability and flexibility while delivering the lowest total cost of ownership. For more information on Liebert visit www.Liebert.com. For more information on the full spectrum of enterprise-wide solutions from Emerson Network Power, visit www.gotoemerson.com.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2006 were $20.1 billion. For more information, visit www.gotoemerson.com.
