annual report 2011 - Walter Meier

08 / Board oF dIreCtors and Group manaGement
walter meIer / annual report 2011
board oF dIrectors
dr. reto e. meier is the founder of the walter meier group, of
which he was chairman and ceo until 1989. since then he
has been non executive chairman of the board of directors.
He is also an Honorary member of the board of the germanswiss
chamber of commerce. during his career, the doctor of
economics was chairman of the board of directors of a mountain
railway group as well as a member of the board of directors
of an industrial group and a bank. He was, among other things,
a board member of the swiss association of employers,
the zurich chamber of commerce, the zurich association of
employ er organizations and the swiss-Japanese chamber
of commerce. reto e. meier presided over the zurich association
of commercial companies and was vice chairman of the
swiss technorama science center & association for technology
and business in winterthur.
Werner kummer has been an independent, non executive
member of the board of directors since 2003.
Holder of an engineering degree from etH zurich, he is an
independent business consultant, including senior advisor
for m&a at schindler management ag, and is a member of
various boards of directors within the schindler group.
werner Kummer is also chairman of the board of directors
of gebrüder meier ag, a member of the board of directors
and chairman of the audit committee of bâloise Holding and
a board member of the zurich chamber of commerce. He
was previously a partner with braxton associates management
consultants, ceo of Forbo Holding, executive vice president
at schindler with responsibility for asia/pacific, and he held
various management positions at pelikan and Feintool.
left to right: dr. reto e. meier, prof. dr. Kurt schiltknecht, paul witschi,
werner Kummer, Heinz roth.
prof. dr. kurt schiltknecht was elected vice chairman in 1990
as an independent, non executive member.
He is also chairman of the board of directors of banca arner
s.a., a member of the boards of directors of the Klosterfrau
Healthcare group and patinex Holding. a professor of economics,
he was previously chairman of the board of directors
of Intershop, member of the bank council and director of the
swiss national bank, chairman of the board of bank leu and
spokesman for the executive board of nord finanzbank. He
has undertaken various research projects at the swiss Federal
Institute of technology (etH) and the organisation for economic
cooperation and development (oecd).
Heinz roth has been an independent non executive member
of the board of directors since 2005 and is also the chairman
of the audit committee.
Heinz roth is also the chairman of the audit committee of
meyer burger technology ag, where he is a member of the
board of directors. He is also a member of the board of
directors of Koras ag (blaser swisslube). as a banking specialist,
he advises companies in the financial sector. previously,
Heinz roth was a member of the board of directors of bank
vontobel and he held various management positions – both in
switzerland and abroad – for the credit suisse group, including
ceo of credit suisse private banking switzerland and as a
member of management of credit suisse Financial services.