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Rainer Brehm

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Digital Industries COO for automation business and CTO at Siemens
📍 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Rainer Brehm is the COO for the automation business and CTO at Siemens Digital Industries. He is focused on making production more adaptive and sustainable by integrating IT and AI into manufacturing. A long-tenured Siemens leader, he holds an engineering degree in Automation Technology from the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm.

There is no publicly available information about his personal life or hobbies.

Before his current role, he spent several years leading a Siemens division in Brazil, gaining significant international management experience.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Digital Industries COO for automation business and CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Personality Overview

How Rainer shows up

Curious
Example Seeker
Assertive

They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Priorities

Topics Rainer cares about

Industrial AI
He believes AI delivers value when data is contextualized, driving recent partnerships with Databricks and Microsoft to enable AI-powered production on the shop floor.
Software-Defined Automation
Champions the view that the future of industry is "software plus hardware," where high-performance hardware is crucial for enabling technologies like AI and virtual PLCs.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Digital Industries COO for automation business and CTO
Siemens
1-2020 - 9-2025
CEO Factory Automation
Siemens
9-2017 - 12-2019
Segment Head Automation Systems (AS)
Siemens
5-2016 - 8-2017
Division Head Process Industries & Drives (PD) and Power & Gas (PG) Brazil
Siemens Ltda.
10-2014 - 4-2016
Division Head Process Industries and Drives
Siemens Ltda.
In the press

Media appearances

Video: IT/OT convergence - Siemens' Rainer Brehm explains. Featured in Siemens Blog (Thought Leadership)
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Rainer Brehm on Siemens and AWS partnership. Featured in YouTube
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Education
1993 - 1998
Dipl. Ing. (FH)
Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
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