John F. Lyons Joins Siemens Business Services as Senior Vice President of Market Development

Business Wire, Feb 24, 2005

NORWALK, Conn. -- John Lyons has joined the North American subsidiary of Siemens Business Services as Senior Vice President of Market Development reporting to Chief Executive Officer John McKenna. Lyons will oversee Strategy and Planning, Alliances and Acquisitions, Portfolio Management and Marketing.

"John has a keen sense of the market, senior management experience and the strategic skills to help accelerate our growth," said John McKenna, CEO of Siemens Business Services Inc., N.A. "We are very pleased to welcome John to our organization and we look forward to his contributions."

Most recently, Lyons was CEO of Mimeo.com, the leading provider of Web-based on-demand digital printing and distribution services. Prior to that, Lyons was President of the Technology Acquisition Services division at Entex Information Services, an IT product sales and services firm. While there, he also served as CEO of The Global Alliance, an international consortium of IT service providers. Lyons began his career at IBM where he held a number of management positions in Sales and Marketing.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Lyons and his family make their home in Larchmont, New York.

About Siemens Business Services

Siemens Business Services is one of the world's leading IT service providers. With its comprehensive know-how and specific sector knowledge, this division of Siemens offers solutions and services from a single source - from consulting through system integration and management of IT infrastructures to IT outsourcing. In fiscal year 2004 (9/30/04), Siemens Business Services achieved worldwide sales of $6.2 billion USD. The company has more than 36,000 employees in 44 countries. For more information, please visit Siemens Business Services on the Web at www.usa.siemens.com/sbs.> About Siemens AG

Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $91.5 billion in fiscal 2004. Founded more than 150 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $16.6 billion and employs 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 430,000 people in 192 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com.