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Vasi Philomin

Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI, Siemens

  • Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI, Siemens12

Vasi Philomin has been Executive Vice President and Head of Data and Artificial Intelligence at Siemens since July 1, 2025, with a mandate that includes growing Siemens's AI offerings and developing an industrial foundation model. Philomin joined Siemens from Amazon, where Philomin most recently served as Vice President of Generative AI in charge of AWS's AI product strategy, helped build Amazon Bedrock and oversaw foundation model development. Earlier, Philomin held senior roles at Philips focused on computer vision and connected systems.12

At a glance

Current role
Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI
Company
Siemens
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Career

Philomin has more than two decades of experience in technology leadership, according to Siemens. At Philips, Philomin held senior roles leading innovation initiatives in computer vision and connected systems, and Philomin is named as an inventor on U.S. patents. Philomin holds a PhD in computer science focused on machine learning and computer vision from the University of Maryland.1

At Amazon, Philomin most recently served as Vice President of Generative AI, in charge of the AI product strategy of Amazon Web Services. In that role Philomin helped build Amazon Bedrock and oversaw the development of foundation models.1

Industrial AI at Siemens

Siemens appointed Philomin Executive Vice President and Head of Data and Artificial Intelligence effective July 1, 2025, reporting to Peter Koerte, the managing board member who serves as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. The mandate covers growing Siemens's portfolio of AI applications, which includes the Industrial Copilot, and developing an industrial foundation model.1

Siemens's June 2026 announcement of two new capabilities for Siemens's Eigen Engineering Agent, an AI agent for industrial automation engineering that works alongside the TIA Portal and was launched at Hannover Messe in April 2026, quotes Philomin as head of Data and AI.2

Work and contributions

  • Amazon Bedrock Proprietary product

    Siemens's June 2025 announcement says Philomin helped build Amazon Bedrock and oversaw the development of foundation models while Vice President of Generative AI at AWS.1

Timeline

  1. Siemens announced Philomin's appointment as Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI.1
  2. Took up the role of Executive Vice President and Head of Data and AI at Siemens.1
  3. Quoted as head of Data and AI in the Siemens announcement of new Eigen Engineering Agent capabilities at VivaTech 2026.2

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. AI leader Vasi Philomin joins Siemens to scale Industrial AI innovationSiemens · Announcement · published Jun 30, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Siemens takes AI for the physical world to the next level with two new Eigen Engineering Agent capabilitiesSiemens · Announcement · published Jun 17, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026