Siemens Automotive Promotes Kurt Schoepfle to Director of Sales

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 12 Siemens Automotive Corp.
today announced the promotion of Kurt Schoepfle to Director of Sales.
Schoepfle is now responsible for the company's sales to the Asian and service
customers in North America.
    Previously, Schoepfle was a member of Siemens Automotive's Dearborn,
Mich., sales team, where he was responsible for growing the company's Body
Electronic, Safety Electronic and Motor Drive business with Ford Motor Co.
    He joined the company in 1997 representing the Motor Drives group and has
steadily grown his business responsibilities, assisting with the development
of Siemens Automotive's strategy to support Ford's 42-volt and Integrated
Starter Generator technologies.
    Prior to joining Siemens, Schoepfle spent more than 20 years with Ford,
and what was to eventually become Visteon, in a variety of positions within
purchasing and production control.
    Schoepfle earned a bachelor's degree in Biology from Wittenberg
University, Springfield, Ohio, in 1976 and a master of business administration
degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, in 1988.
    He currently resides in Novi, Mich., with wife Anne and their three
children Brian, Laura and Eric.
    Siemens Automotive is a tier-one supplier of automotive and electrical-
electronic systems and components with applications covering gasoline and
diesel powertrain systems, safety and chassis systems, body electronics,
electric motor drives and driver information systems.  Worldwide sales in
fiscal year 1999/2000 totaled $3.7 billion.
    Siemens AG, headquartered in Berlin and Munich, is a leading global
electronics and engineering company, employing over 447,000 people in 193
countries, with worldwide sales in excess of $74 billion in fiscal 2000
(10/1/99 - 9/30/00).  The United States is Siemens' largest market, where it
employs over 73,000 and recorded sales of more than $17 billion in fiscal
2000.
    Siemens leads the information and communications, medical, power,
automation and control, transportation and lighting sectors by leveraging its
unparalleled technological heritage and global network of innovation to
deliver business results for its customers around the world.