Board of Directors

Bruno de Kalbermatten - Honorary Chairman

Charles Gebhard - Chairman

(1941) Swiss national. Schools and banking vocational training in Basle, Lausanne and New York. 1967-1974 Finance Dept Manager of Ciba-Geigy, Basle (Novartis). 1975-1990 Executive Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee of Jacobs Suchard AG, Lausanne and Zurich (previously Jacobs AG and Interfood AG). 1987 Stanford University. 1990-2001 Executive Vice President (until 1996) and Member of the Board of Klaus J. Jacobs Holding AG, Zurich and Barry Callebaut AG, Zurich. 1997 Management consulting. Other Board Memberships: Koller Auktionen AG.

Thierry de Kalbermatten - Vice Chairman

(1954) Swiss national. BA, University of Lausanne (HEC). MBA, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland. 1980-1982 UBS, Lausanne and Zurich, Switzerland. 1984-1986 Rolex SA, Geneva, Switzerland. 1986-1990 Marketing Manager at Bobst Group Inc., Roseland, USA. 1990-1994 Head of Logistics Department at Bobst SA. 1994-2005 Member of Bobst Group Executive Committee. Other Board Memberships: JBF Finance SA, Vice Chairman and Shareholder. FAG Graphic Systems SA, Member.

Christian Engel

(1966) German national. Bank Clerk and Diplom-Kaufmann, University of Mannheim. 1992-1994 Assistant Teacher to the Chair for International Management, European Business School, Oestrich Winkel. 1994 Sales Department BHS Corrugated. 1995 Managing Director BHS Corrugated. 2000 Chairman of the Management Board of BHS Corrugated. Other Board Memberships: Member of various boards within the BHS organization. 2007 Chairman of the Amberg-Weiden University Advisory Board.

Hans Rudolf Widmer

(1943) Swiss national. Dr. Jur. University of Zurich. MBA, University of Pennsylvania, USA. 1970-1976 UBS, Zurich. 1976-1991 Jacobs Suchard AG, Zurich (various positions, 1989-1991 Group CFO). 1991-2003 CFO Rieter Holding AG, Winterthur, Member of the Group Executive Committee. Member of the Swiss Exchange (SIX) Panel of Experts on Accounting issues (until 2004). Chairman of the Swiss Takeover Board of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (until the  end of 2007).

Michael W.O. Garrett

(1942) British and Australian national. Graduate of IMD Business School Lausanne. 1961-2005 Nestlé: Market Head Australia and Japan and Executive Vice President, responsible for Zone Asia-Oceania-Africa & Middle East. Other Board Memberships: Nestlé India, Prudential plc UK, Hasbro Inc. USA and Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited in Guernsey. Chairman of the Evian Group (the Europe-Asia forum for debating the framework of the global economic order). Member of the Development Committee of the Board of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) as well as Member of the Swaziland International Business Advisory Panel under the auspices of the Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) London.

Maia Wentland Forte

(1948) Swiss and French national. BSc Economics & Finance (Institute of Political Sciences, Paris) MSc ès Information Science (Univ. Paris VI). PhD ès Information Management (UNIL). 1975-1986 Risk Manager at the head office of BNP, Paris. 1986 Founder and Director of Evalog. 1986-1990 Technical Director of COROM SA, Paris. From 1989 Assistant, assistant professor and full professor at the Business School of the  University of Lausanne. 1997-2004 Director of the MBA HEC, Lausanne. 1999-2006 Vice President of the University of Lausanne (fi nance, EDP, statistics). 2001-2008 Vice President of the Swiss Virtual Campus. Other Board Memberships: Orif (Organisation romande d’intégration et de formation  professionnelle). Caritas Vaud. President of the Foundation of the Lausanne Opera House. Member of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Bank Franck, Galland & Cie SA.

Ulf Berg

(1950) Swiss national. Diploma and PhD Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. 1999-2001 CEO of Carlo Gavazzi Holding Ltd, Zug, Switzerland. 2003-2004 CEO of SIG Beverages Int. Ltd, a division of SIG AG, Switzerland. 2004-2009 Chairman and CEO of Sulzer Ltd, Switzerland. Owner of EG Energy Group Ltd, Zug, Switzerland. Partner of BLR & Partners, Thalwil, Switzerland. Other Board Memberships: EMS Chemie Holding SA, Switzerland, SAG GmbH, Langen, Germany, MCV LLP, Midland, Michigan, USA.

Alain Guttmann

(1958) Swiss national. MScE, University of Lausanne (HEC). 1983-1986 Marketing brand manager for Jabobs Suchard. 1986-1996 ICME Management Consulting Lausanne and Paris: Associate and Managing Director. 1996-2000 Ernst & Young Consulting: Vice President Central Europe and Managing Director for Switzerland. 2000-2004 Founder and associate of SFF Financial Services. 2004-2009 Founder and associate of CapD consulting. Other Board Memberships: Golay Buchel Holding SA, Festina Group Switzerland SA, JBF Finance SA, Origins holdings.