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Professional Assignement

2019 – at present CEO Saurer Spinning Solutions and CTO of the Group

Listed Textile machinery manufacturer, 600mio€ turn-over; 3’000 employees (saurer.com). Saurer is owned by a private Chinese investor. (jinshengroup.com)

2018 – 2019 CEO Saurer Technology and CTO of the Group

Global multi-company (Elastomer components, Engineered bearings, Twisting machines, Automation), 250mio€ turn-over; 1’100 employees

2016 – 2018 CEO Saurer PRE-Spinning and CTO of the Group

Global textile preparation business, 50mio€ turn-over; 450 employees

2011 – 2016 President of the Tools Division

Global construction survey equipment business; grew market share to become the market leader with a turn-over of 200mio€.

1990 – 2011 Held different leadership positions around the globe

Worked in different industrial areas like medical, automation and CNC mechanical engineering and held leadership positions in R&D, Sales, Marketing and Operations

Professional Education

2020 Swiss Board of Director education (University of HSG)

2015 – 2018 Further Education

  • CEIBS (business development in CN)
  • IMD (business model innovation)
  • SVEB1 (didactic and moderations)
  • Metaplan expert (visual moderation and discourse)

2005 – 2008 Master in Business Administration at the university of Vaduz and Cheltenham

1999 – 2001 Postgraduate Master studies in Software at the ETH Zürich

1987 – 1990 Bachelor degree in electrical and control system engineering at the NTB

1981 – 1985 Trade school as a mechatronics technician

Board Membership

  • Member of the board of several Saurer companies (saurer.com)
  • Adolf Saurer fund
  • Personal welfare fund of the Saurer AG
  • Board member Schmidheiny Engineering