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INVENSYS APPOINT CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER IN DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
06 August 2002 - Invensys plc

Invensys plc announces the appointment of John Duerden to lead its Development Division from September. John joins Invensys from Xerox Engineering Systems, a wholly-owned Xerox subsidiary with 1,600 employees, where he has been Chief Executive Officer since May 2001. John has been responsible for successfully restoring the business to profitability.

Previously, John spent five years at Dictaphone Corporation as Chairman and CEO. John was responsible for repositioning the business from a voice-recording hardware company into a software and solutions company offering a range of voice and data products from healthcare information systems to call centre quality monitoring. In 2000 Dictaphone was bought by Lernout & Hauspie, a speech and language technology company, for $935 million.

Prior to joining Dictaphone, John spent seven years at Reebok where he held a variety of senior management positions including President and Chief Operating Officer of Reebok Brands with P&L responsibility for a $3bn worldwide operation. John started his career in the UK at Xerox, where he spent over twenty years in a variety of UK and international staff and operational positions.

John is also Chairman of Clarity Systems, LLC a high-tech start-up in Michigan and a Director of Selas Corporation of America.

CEO, Rick Haythornthwaite said, 'John is the ideal candidate for this role. His career has focused on transforming and growing businesses. His experience in a number of different industries and markets also gives him the breadth of vision necessary for leading the Development Division and its three diverse businesses of Power Components, Rail Systems and Wind Power. All three businesses face significant strategic hurdles and John's knowledge and experience will ensure they make the most of their opportunities. We are very pleased to have attracted John to Invensys.'

Invensys' Development Division, created as part of the Group's recent strategy review, contains three Business Groups. The Rail Systems businesses provide rail automation, signalling and control solutions to railways around the world. The Wind Power business manufactures innovative gear units for wind power generation turbines. The Power Components businesses deliver market leading switching and power supply solutions for manufacturing, telecommunications and embedded systems.

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Operating in more than 60 countries worldwide, Invensys meets the needs of the process and batch industries - from oil & gas, powerand utilities, chemicals, and rail systems to food & beverage, healthcare, and data communications - as well as the discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors, and provides components, systems and services to the heating management, commercial refrigeration, residential safety and automotive industries, and electronic and electro-mechanical systems and components to appliance and related industries.

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