Annette succeeds Markus Lusser, who was promoted to a new life sciences position within Danaher Corporation, Leica’s parent company.

“I am very excited to join Leica Microsystems and to lead our company into the future, enabling customer value and global growth expansion. Our highly engaged teams at Leica are focused on offering innovation breakthroughs with the highest quality and the most useful applications to our customers,” says Annette.

She joins Leica from Honeywell where she has spent the past seven years, most recently as general manager of global brands and companies within the building management systems division. Previously Annette built her career in commercial, portfolio management and marketing leadership roles at Eaton, Caterpillar, and BMW. She holds a PhD in applied economics / communication science.