Amphenol announced that effective January 1, 2009, R. Adam Norwitt, currently the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, will become Chief Executive Officer of the Company and a member of the Board of Directors. Martin H. Loeffler, currently the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will be appointed to the newly created position of Executive Chairman. Norwitt has held a variety of management, business development and operating positions in Amphenol operations in Asia and the United States since joining Amphenol in 1998. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Operating Officer on January 1, 2006, he served as a Senior Vice President of the Company and as Group General Manager of Amphenol’s Worldwide RF and Microwave Products Operations.