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NAME POSITION COMMITTEE¹ FIRST YEAR OF ELECTION
Dr.-Ing. Jörg Wolle Chairman NCC (Chair) 2018
Jan Klingelnberg Member - 2023
Dr. Hans-Martin Schneeberger Member NCC 2007
Prof. Dr. Michael Hilb Member AC 2018
Philipp Buhofer Member NCC 2022
Kalina Alexieva Scott Member AC (Chair) 2022

1NCC: Nomination and Compensation Committee; AC: Audit Committee

DR.-ING. JÖRG WOLLE, CHAIRMAN

SWISS AND GERMAN, 1957, CHAIRMAN AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 2018

Dr. Jörg Wolle is the Chairman of the BoD and a Swiss and German citizen born in 1957. He has been serving as Chairman of the Company’s BoD since June 2018. Dr. Wolle has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kuehne + Nagel International AG since 2016. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Kuehne Holding AG as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kuehne Foundation, Switzerland. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of OLAM International Ltd. in Singapore since September 2019. Dr. Jörg Wolle was Chairman of DKSH Holding Ltd. from 2017 to March 2019 and President and CEO of DKSH from June 2002 to March 2017. Previously, he was President and CEO of SiberHegner Holding Ltd. from early 2000. Dr. Wolle obtained his PhD in engineering in 1987 from the University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany. He graduated from the Senior Executive Program at Stanford Business School, USA.

 

JAN KLINGELNBERG

SWISS, 1971, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 2023

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 has been 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 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. Since 2008, Mr. Klingelnberg has also been 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

SWISS, 1955, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 2007

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 currently is the President of 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

SWISS, 1977, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 2018

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 and CEO 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 executive education programs at different business schools.

 

Philipp Buhofer

SWISS, 1959, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 2022

Philipp Buhofer is a 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 and Schaffner Holding AG.

 

Kalina Alexieva Scott

SWISS, 1974, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 2022

Kalina Alexieva Scott is a Swiss citizen born in 1974. She is a seasoned professional with 25 years of broad experience in finance, ranging from operational finance to mergers & acquisitions and capital markets. Kalina Scott is since 2019 Chief Financial Officer of duagon, a Swiss-based supplier for communication, computing and control technology for regulated critical applications in the railway and medical electronics markets with approximately 600 employees worldwide. Prior to that, from 2017, she was a Chief Financial Officer of Polyphor, a biotech company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Ms. Scott's background is in Investment Banking, where she 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 Zurich and London, covering leveraged finance as well as mergers & acquisitions. From 2006 until 2008 Ms. Scott worked as Director of Corporate Finance at KPMG Zurich, followed by a position as Managing Director for Bank am Bellevue. Ms. Scott holds a degree in Business Administration.

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