Helmuth Ludwig

Dr. Helmuth Ludwig is a Professor of Practice for Strategy and Entrepreneurship at SMU’s Cox School of Business in Dallas, where he teaches MBA courses, e.g., on Technology and AI Strategy. He is also an Executive Fellow in the Strategic Management Department at IESE in Barcelona, Spain.

He serves on the Boards of Directors of Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo (Member, Audit Committee); Myers Industries, Inc. (Member, NomGov and Audit Committees), Humanetics Group, Farmington Hills (Board Chair), and National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), NorthTexas Chapter. He is also a senior advisor to Bridgepoint LLC and Zscaler, Inc and a Certified Director and Board Leadership Fellow with NACD. From 1990 until 2019, Dr. Ludwig worked at Siemens, a leading technology company, in different functions and regions: global CIO (until 2019), CEO of Siemens Industry Sector North America (until 2014), and President of Siemens PLM Software (until 2010). Earlier in his career, Helmuth had several international assignments at Siemens in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

He has been a board member of several public and private organizations: Circor International (Chair), Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (Chair), Siemens Electrical, Inc. (Chair), Siemens Industry Inc. (member), and Siemens Corporation (member).

Helmuth holds an engineering degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Doctorate from the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel. He holds US and German citizenship and resides with his wife, Almudena, in Dallas, TX, and Madrid, Spain.