Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2008, non-executive, independent member of the Board of Directors since 2006, elected until 2009
Swiss citizen, resident in Auslikon, CH
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Burckhardt Compression AG, Winterthur,
Member of the Board of Directors, Comet AG, Flamatt and Schaffner AG, Luterbach
Hans Hess graduated as a materials engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and holds a MBA degree from the University of Southern California. He started his career in 1981 in the research and development division of Sulzer. In 1983, he transferred to Huber & Suhner where he initially worked as a Production Manager until 1988 and subsequently headed a business unit. In 1996, seven years after joining the Leica Group, he became CEO and 1999 President of the Board of Directors of Leica Geosystems AG which went public in the year 2000 on the SWX Swiss Exchange. In the wake of the acquisition of Leica Geosystems AG by the Swedish Hexagon AB, Hans Hess retired from his offices at the end of 2005. Since then he is member of the Board of Directors of various public corporations. Hans Hess is Vice Chairman of the Geberit Board of Directors since the General Meeting of April 30, 2008.
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