Full corporate governance report 2011 - Straumann

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gional Management to become President of the Elevator and
Escalator Division. From 1971 to 1984, he worked for Nestlé,
initially in accounting, then as an international auditor, and
finally as Chief Financial Officer of a Group company.
His career includes several years in North and Latin America,
in addition to assignments in Europe. He holds a degree
in Business Administration from Lucerne Business School
and studied at Harvard Business School near Boston.
Roland Hess has been a member of the Board of Directors of
Straumann since 2010 and is elected until 2012.
He has a long and distinguished track record in larger companies
in more mature industries, combined with in-depth
regional and functional experience. In addition, he complements
the Board with expertise in compliance, risk management
and standardized global procedures.
ULRICH LOOSER
Swiss (born 1957),
Chairman of the Strategy Committee
Member of the Human Resources Committee
Ulrich Looser is a partner with BLR & Partners AG. From 2001
to 2009, he was with Accenture Ltd., where he became Chairman
of its Swiss affiliate (2005) and Managing Director of
the Products Business in Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
Earlier, he spent six years as a partner at McKinsey &
Company Ltd. Mr Looser graduated with a degree in Physics
from the Zurich ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
and in Economics at the University of St. Gallen.
Ulrich Looser is Chairman of the Boards of Chemgineering
AG and econis AG as well as a Member of the Boards of the
Bachofen Group and economiesuisse, where he headed the
Competition Commission until 31 December 2011 and the
Commission of Research and Education as of 1 January 2012.
He heads a chapter of the Swiss American Chamber of
Commerce, is a Member of the Board of ‘Engineers Shape
committees of the board of DIRECTORS
* Committee Chairman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AUDIT
Roland Hess*
Dr Sebastian Burckhardt
Dr Beat Lüthi
HUMAN RESOURCES
Stefan Meister*
Ulrich Looser
Dr Beat Lüthi
STRATEGY
Ulrich Looser*
Dominik Ellenrieder
Roland Hess
Dr h.c. Thomas Straumann
our Future’, and heads the finance commission of the Swiss
Studies Foundation.
Ulrich Looser has been a member of the Board of Directors
of Straumann since 2010 and is elected until 2012.
His expertise in strategy, project and human capital
management is valuable to the Straumann Board. He
adds in-depth consultancy experience, which is particularly
useful in the Vision 2020 process that the Company
has been undertaking.
DR BEAT LÜTHI
Swiss (born 1962),
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Human Resources Committee
Beat Lüthi is CEO and Co-owner of CTC Analytics AG, a
world leader in gas and liquid chromatography automation.
After obtaining his PhD in Electrical Engineering
from Zurich ETH, Beat Lüthi began his career with Zellweger
Uster AG, a leading manufacturer of quality control
equipment in textile production. In 1990, he moved to
Mettler-Toledo International Inc. and rose to the position of