On February 25, 2022, ABB announced changes to the leadership of two Business Areas within the Executive Committee as of April 1, 2022. Morten Wierod, currently President of Motion, will become President of Electrification, while Tarak Mehta, currently President of Electrification, will become President of Motion. Mehta joined ABB in 1998 and has held various management positions in the Power Products division in the U.S., Sweden and Switzerland.

He then became global head of ABB's Transformers business and was appointed to ABB's Executive Committee in 2010 as President of the Low Voltage Products division and in 2016 became President of the Electrification business. Before joining ABB, he worked for eight years at Cooper Power Systems in the U.S. Wierod joined ABB in 1998 and held several senior management positions in Norway. In 2015, he was appointed Managing Director of the Business Unit Drives in the Robotics and Motion division.

In 2019 he joined the Executive Committee as President of the Motion Business Area. On February 21, 2022, The company announced that Theodor Swedjemark, Chief Communications and Sustainability Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, has decided to leave the company to start his own venture. Swedjemark will remain in his role and a member of the Executive Committee until a successor has been appointed.

Swedjemark joined ABB in 2006 as an executive management trainee and has held various functional and business roles of increasing seniority. He has been responsible for Group Communications & Public Affairs since March 2020 and joined the Executive Committee in August 2020, with added group responsibility for Sustainability and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE).