Board of Directors

Committees

Chairman of the Nomination and Sustainability Committee

Corporate Governance

• Membership: Independent member
• Board meeting attendance in 2022: 8/8 (attendance rate: 100%)
• Committee meeting attendance in 2022: Nomination and Sustainability Committee: 4/4 (attendance rate: 100%)

Professional background, career

Deputy Commercial Attaché at the French Embassy in Manila (Philippines) (1977–1979); Customer Service Engineer for Alstom in France and South Africa (1979–1982); various positions at Sulzer in France and Japan (1982–1992); various positions at GF (1992–2019), Managing Director of Charmilles Technologies Japan and Regional Head of Sales Asia (1992–1998), Head of Charmilles (1998–2003), Head of GF Piping Systems (2003–2008), President and CEO of Georg Fischer Ltd (2008–2019)

Involvement in governing bodies of other listed corporations

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Further professional activities and functions

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Stäubli Holding AG; member of the Board of BNP Paribas Switzerland (both Switzerland); Advisor Sustainability Committee of Recruit Holdings and of Asset Management One, Tokyo (both Japan)

Committees

Chairman of the Audit Committee

Member of the Nomination and Sustainability Committee 

Corporate Governance

• Membership: Independent member
• Board meeting attendance in 2022: 8/8 (attendance rate: 100%)
• Committee meeting attendance in 2022:
  • Audit Committee: 4/4 (attendance rate: 100%)
  • Compensation Committee (until April 2022): 2/4 (attendance rate: 100%)
  • Nomination and Sustainability Committee: 4/4 (attendance rate: 100%)

Professional background, career

Legal advisor at FIDES Treuhandgesellschaft in Zurich (1982–1987), Head of the company's Lucerne office (1987–1994), Partner and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the newly created KPMG Schweiz (1992–1994), member of the four-person Executive Board, responsible for tax and law (1994–2004), CEO of KPMG Schweiz and performed several key roles for KPMG International (2004–2012), first Lead Director of KPMG International and member of the KPMG Global Board (2009–2012)

Involvement in governing bodies of other listed corporations

Member of the Board and Head Audit Committee of UBS Switzerland AG (Switzerland)

Further professional activities and functions

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Committees

Member of the Audit Committee 

Corporate Governance

• Membership: Independent member
• Board meeting attendance in 2022: 8/8 (attendance rate: 100%)
• Committee meeting attendance in 2022: Audit Committee: 4/4 (attendance rate: 100%)

Professional background, career

Various management positions at McKinsey and Geistlich Biomaterials (Switzerland); various management positions at Straumann AG, ultimately as Head of Group Controlling and member of Executive Management Group Straumann AG (2004–2011); CFO of the global segment Oerlikon Drive Systems (2011–2013); CFO of Straumann Group (2014–2022); CFO of Syntegon (since 2023)

Involvement in governing bodies of other listed corporations

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Further professional activities and functions

Chairman Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Zurich (Switzerland)

Committees

Member of the Compensation Committee

Corporate Governance

• Membership: Independent member
• Board meeting attendance in 2022: 8/8 (attendance rate: 100%)
• Committee meeting attendance in 2022:
  Compensation Committee (since April 2022): 2/4 (attendance rate: 100%);
  Nomination and Sustainability Committee (until April 2022): 2/4 (attendance rate: 100%)

Professional background, career

Various positions at Osram Group (1988–2012), ultimately as CEO at Osram Brazil and Head of Human Resources of Osram in Latin America (2004–2012); prior to this CFO at Osram subsidiaries in India and Brazil; Partner and Director of Verocap Consulting, São Paulo, (Brazil) (since 2012)

Involvement in governing bodies of other listed corporations

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Further professional activities and functions

Managing Director and owner of Verocap Consulting; Corporate CFO and Head of Corporate HR of Bentonit União Group Ltd. São Paulo; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Mast Group Ltd. Sao Paulo; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of the German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz São Paulo (all Brazil)

Committees

Chairwoman of the Compensation Committee

Corporate Governance

• Membership: Independent member
• Board meeting attendance in 2022: 8/8 (attendance rate: 100%)
• Committee meeting attendance in 2022: Compensation Committee: 4/4 (attendance rate: 100%)

Professional background, career

Legal and Tax Advisor at Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG Fides) (1983–1985); Attorney at Baker & McKenzie (1985–1992); Employee (1992–1994), Partner (1994–2014) and of counsel at Homburger AG (2014–2017)

Involvement in governing bodies of other listed corporations

Member of the Board of Directors of Flughafen Zurich AG, Clariant AG and Forbo Holding AG (all Switzerland)

Further professional activities and functions

Member of the Board of Directors of Stäubli Holding AG; Member of the Board of Trustees of UZH Foundation (both Switzerland)

Corporate Governance

• Membership: Independent member
• Board meeting attendance in 2022 (since April 2022): 6/6 (attendance rate: 100%)
• Committee meeting attendance in 2022: Nomination and Sustainability Committee (since April 2022): 2/4 (attendance rate: 100%)

Professional background, career

Since 2006, various management positions at Recruit Holdings and its group companies, including in London (UK), Austin (USA) and Tokyo (Japan). Since 2018, she has been COO as Managing Corporate Executive Officer responsible for Human Resources, General Affairs, Finance, Risk Management and Corporate Planning. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Recruit Holdings, where she chairs the Sustainability Committee. 

Involvement in governing bodies of other listed corporations

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Further professional activities and functions

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