Jan Klingelnberg is a BoD member and Swiss citizen born in 1971. Jan Klingelnberg has been a member of the Board of Directors of KLINGELNBERG AG since 2023. Furthermore, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Group since 2004 and continued to perform this position as Delegate of the Board of Directors since 2023. Mr. Klingelnberg has also been a member of the Supervisory Board of INDUS Holding AG since 2023. From 2002 to 2004, he was Director of the Cylindrical Gears business unit of KLINGELNBERG GmbH, Germany. Between 2000 and 2002, Mr. Klingelnberg held various positions at ZF Passau GmbH in Brazil and the USA. Prior to that, he was manager for strategic planning at SMS Demag AG in Germany. Mr. Klingelnberg was also a member of the Managing Board of the VDMA for machine tools and production systems, a trade association for the industrial sector in which the Company is active. Mr. Klingelnberg holds a degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Dr. Hans-Martin Schneeberger is a BoD member and Swiss citizen born in 1955. Dr. Schneeberger has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since 2007. Dr. Hans-Martin Schneeberger currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Schneeberger Holding AG since 2003, having been CEO between 1993 and 2018 and Managing Director and Head of Marketing and Sales between 1988 and 1993. From 1985 until 1988, he was an account and project manager with a European-based management consulting firm. Since 2006, he has served on the Board of Unitectra AG, an organization for technology transfer, between 2014 and 2018 as its Chairman. Between 2010 and 2012, Dr. Hans-Martin Schneeberger was a member of the Board of Swissmem, the association of Swiss companies in the mechanical and electrical engineering industries and related technology-oriented sectors, and he served for more than 20 years as a Swiss delegate to CECIMO, the European Machine Tool Builders Association in Brussels. Dr. Hans-Martin Schneeberger obtained a PhD from the Krannert Business School at Purdue University USA in 1984 and was Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1985.

Prof. Dr. Michael Hilb is a BoD member and Swiss citizen born in 1977. He has been a member of the BoD of the Company since June 2018. Prof. Hilb is founder of DBP Holding Ltd. and serves on the boards of Sigvaris Holding Ltd., the Board Foundation and the Foundation for Value Creation. From 2010 to 2018, he was with DKSH, most recently as Vice President Group Strategy and Digital Business. Before that, he was Project Manager with Roland Berger from 2005 until 2010 and with Holcim Commerce from 2001 until 2003. He is a titular professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and holds a PhD and an MSc in Management from the University of St. Gallen. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University and INSEAD and completed several executive education programs.

Philipp Buhofer is a BoD member and Swiss citizen born in 1959. Mr. Buhofer studied Business Administration at the HWV Lucerne. After working for several years in procurement management at Metro International in Europe and Asia, he joined EPA AG in 1987, where he held various management positions in procurement and sales. From 1997, he was a member and later Chairman as well as Delegate of the Board of Directors of EPA AG until its transfer to COOP in 2003. Today, in addition to his activities at DAX Holding AG, he is active on the boards of several industrial companies, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cham Group AG (OTC) as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the listed Kardex Holding AG.

Kalina Scott is a BoD member and a Swiss citizen born in 1974. She is a seasoned professional with over 26 years of broad experience in finance, ranging from operational finance to mergers & acquisitions and capital markets. Ms. Scott is Chief Financial Officer of Ascom Holding AG since 2024. From 2019 to 2023 she was Chief Financial Officer of Duagon AG, a Swiss-based supplier for communication, computing and control technology. Prior to that, from 2017, she was a Chief Financial Officer of Polyphor AG (today Spexis). Ms. Scott started her career at UBS in 1997, focusing on structured finance and credit risk management, followed by leading roles in UBS’s investment banking in Zürich and London, covering leveraged finance as well as mergers & acquisitions. From 2006 until 2008 Ms. Scott worked as Director of Corporate Finance at KPMG AG, Zürich, followed by a position as Managing Director for Bank am Bellevue. Ms. Scott holds a degree in Business Administration and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.