Pursuant to the Articles of Association, the Board of Directors of Mikron Holding AG consists of at least three and at most seven members, who are elected by the Annual General Meeting for a one-year term and who may be re-elected for successive terms.
Dipl.Ing., MBA, MAS Philosophy & Management
After working as Sales Manager / Engineer at Symalit AG, Lenzburg (CH), Paul Zumbühl was Managing Director in the Sarna Group (now part of the Sika Group). From 1994 until the end of 1999, he was Head of the Mikron Plastics Technology Division and a member of the Executive Management of the Mikron Group. From January 2000 until the end of April 2021, he was CEO of the Interroll Worldwide Group and has served as its Chairman of the Board of Directors since May 2021.
Paul Zumbühl has a degree in Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences—School of Engineering. He holds an MBA (Corporate Finance) from the Joint-University-Program of the Universities in Boston, Bern and Shanghai and earned a Master of Advanced Studies in Philosophy + Management from the University of Lucerne. He successfully completed an AMP at the Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University in Evanston/Chicago, USA.
Dr. iur., LL.M.
Andreas Casutt joined the law firm Niederer Kraft Frey AG in Zurich in 1993 and was made a partner in 2002. He is a member of its Board of Directors and served as the firm’s managing partner from 2006 to 2014. His practice focuses on corporate law mergers & acquisitions, stock exchange law, and employment law. Andreas Casutt studied law and received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and completed an LL.M. program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).
MSc Physics, MSc Mathematics, Engineer, MBA
Hans-Michael Hauser worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as Partner and Managing Director in Munich and Zurich from 1995 to 2015. In this function he was responsible for establishing and expanding BCG’s consultancy business in the industrial and technology segments. Hans-Michael Hauser is an expert on Software and Technology. Hans-Michael Hauser holds Master degrees in Mathematics and Physics from University of Stuttgart and an Engineering Degree from École Centrale Paris as well as a Master of Business Administration from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Since 2015, Hans-Michael Hauser has been helping companies to develop and launch digital business models through ML Insights AG, the company he founded himself.
Dr.-Ing.
Dr.-Ing. Alexandra Bendler has many years of experience in industrial consultancy and management in Germany and Switzerland. She was working for the Autoneum Group (formerly Rieter Automotive) in Winterthur from 2008 to 2023, from 2019 as a member of the Group Executive Board and as Head of Business Group Europe. Since 2024, Alexandra Bendler has been leading as Business Unit President of the Automotive Structures and Industry Business and a member of the Executive Committee at Constellium, a global aluminum company.
MSc Microtechnology, MBA
Hans-Christian Schneider is CEO of the Ammann Group. He joined the Group in August 2009. Since 2010 he has been a member of Board of Directors of Ammann Group Holding AG and serving as CEO since 2013. Before his activity with Ammann Group, he was for four years in a leading position for Process Engineering with Micro Crystal AG (Swatch Group).
He graduated in Microtechnology from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and is holding an MBA degree from INSEAD.
Mikron’s Board of Directors’ independence definition is based on the ‘Swiss Code of best practice
for Corporate Governance’ issued by ‘Economiesuisse’, a Swiss Corporate union, and is complemented
by additional criteria of independence by Mikron.
In order to be considered as independent at Mikron, a member of the Board of Directors must not:
– Have an executive role
– Have been an employee of the Mikron Executive Management within the last 3 years
– Have been a lead auditor of the company’s external audit firm during the past 2 years
– Have major business relations with the company
– Have any other status which the Board of Directors in its fair judgement considers incompatible with independence
Based on above independence criteria, all current members of the Mikron Board of Directors are independent.