Juergen Maier

Professor Juergen Maier

Industrialist & Chair of the Digital Catapult

Juergen Maier is Chair of the Digital Catapult, is the co-founder of vocL - a platform for responsible business voices, and is Vice-Chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership where he supports the drive for the green re-industrialisation of the North of England. He advises tech start-up and scale-up businesses which are a key part of the industrial ecosystem creating the green 4th Industrial Revolution. In that capacity, Juergen advises the Welsh hydrogen car company Riversimple.

 

Juergen is the former Chief Executive of Siemens UK. A position he held from July 2014 to December 2019. Over his 33-year career with Siemens, he held a number of senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany.

 

Juergen joined Siemens in 1986 as a graduate engineer with a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens-sponsored graduate programme. He was made an honorary professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester in March 2014 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in September 2017. Juergen has also received honorary doctorates for his services to UK Science and Engineering from the Universities of Lincoln, Nottingham Trent, Salford Manchester, Cranfield, Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan, who also made him an honorary Professor in 2019. Juergen was awarded a Fellowship of the City & Guilds Institute in 2020, in recognition of skills development support for technical apprenticeships and workplace upskilling for 4th Industrial Revolution technologies.

 

He was awarded a CBE in the New Years honours list 2019.