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: Mobilezone Holding AG. Hugo Boss (Schweiz) AG. Galerie Koller AG.

Thierry de Kalbermatten (1954), Vice Chairman

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

Luc Bonnard (1946)

Swiss national. Masters degree in electrical engineering, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich).  Since 1973 with the Schindler Group in various management positions. Other Board Memberships: Since 1991 member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Schindler Holding Ltd., Hergiswil, Switzerland. Since 1996 Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Schindler Holding Ltd., Hergiswil, Switzerland.

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. 1991-2003 CFO Rieter Holding AG, Winterthur, Member of the Group Executive Committee. Member of the Swiss Exchange (SWX) 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 IMEDE 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 Finance and Performance Review (F & PR) Committee of the Board of the Prince of Wales 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 offi ce of BNP in Paris. 1986 Founder and director of Evalog. 1986-1990 Technical Director of COROM SA in Paris. From 1989 Assistant, assistant professor and 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). From 2001 Vice President of the Swiss Virtual Campus. Other Board Memberships: ORIPH (Organisation romande pour l’intégration professionnelle). Caritas. 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 Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. 1999-2001 CEO of Carlo Gavazzi Holding Ltd., Zug, Switzerland. 2003-2004 CEO of SIG Beverages Int. AG, a division of SIG AG, Switzerland. 2004-2007 President and CEO of Sulzer SA, Switzerland. Owner of EG Energy Group AG, Zug, Switzerland. Other Board Memberships: Sulzer SA, Switzerland. EMS Chemie Holding SA, Switzerland. New Russian Generation Ltd, Guernsey.