Board of Directors

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.

Members of the Board of Directors

Paul Zumbühl (Chairman)
Paul Zumbühl (Chairman)

Dipl. Ing., MBA, AMP

From 1988 to 1994, Paul Zumbühl held various management positions and was Managing Director in the Sarna Group, Switzerland. From 1994 to the end of 1999, he was Head of Division of Mikron Plastics Technology and a member of the Group Management of the Mikron Group. From January 2000 until the end of April 2021, he headed the Interroll Worldwide Group as CEO and has served as its Chairman of the Board of Directors since May 2021. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Schlatter Industries AG, Schlieren/Zurich. Paul Zumbühl has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Mikron Group since 2018 and Chairman since 2021.

Andreas Casutt (Vice-Chairman)
Andreas Casutt (Vice-Chairman)

Dr. iur., LL.M.

Andreas Casutt joined the law firm Niederer Kraft & Frey in Zurich in 1993 and was made a partner in 2002. He served as the firm's managing partner from 2006 to 2014. His practice focuses on corporate law, contract law, mergers & acquisitions and stock exchange law. Andreas Casutt studied law and received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and completed an LL.M. programme at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA). He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Siegfried Holding AG as well as various privately held companies including maxon motor ag and Bendura Bank AG.

Hans-Michael Hauser (Member)
Hans-Michael Hauser (Member)

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 segment amongst other tasks. Since 2015, he has been helping companies to develop and launch digital business models through ML Insights AG, the company he founded himself.

Alexandra Bendler (Member)
Alexandra Bendler (Member)

Dr.-Ing.

Alexandra Bendler has many years of experience in industrial consulting and management in Germany and Switzerland. She has been working for the Autoneum Group (formerly Rieter Automotive) in Winterthur from 2008 to 2023 – and since 2019 as a member of the Group Executive Board and as Head of Business Group Europe.

Hans-Christian Schneider
Hans-Christian Schneider (Member)

MSc Microtechnology, MBA

Hans-Christian Schneider has many years of management experience in an international industrial environment and has been CEO of the Ammann Group in Langenthal since 2013.

Members of the Board of Directors

The Company’s Board of Directors currently consists of five members. None of them maintains a significant business relationship with the Group.

NameNationalityPositionBorn inOn the Board sinceElected until 
Paul ZumbühlCHChairman195720182023non-executive
Andreas CasuttCHMember196320132023non-executive
Hans-Michael HauserDEMember197020162023non-executive
Alexandra BendlerDEMember197320222023non-executive
Hans-Christian SchneiderCHMember197920222023non-executive