Dr h.c. Fritz Gerber

Nationality: Swiss
Year of Birth: March 22, 1929

• University of Bern; graduated as Lawyer LL.M ; admitted to the bar
• Honorary doctor of natural science of the University Basel, Switzerland

• Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Bern (now SECO)

"Zürich" Insurance Company (now: Zurich Financial Services)

• 1958:
  "Zürich" Insurance Company, Zurich
• 1969:
  General Manager
• 1974:
  Chairman of the Management Board
• 1977 - 1991:
  Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
• 1991 - 1995:
  Non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
• since 1995:
  Honorary Chairman

F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. Ltd. (now: Roche Holding AG)

• 1978 - 1997:
  Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
• 1978 - 2001:
  Chairman of the Board of Directors
• 2001 - 2004:
  Member of the Board of Directors and Honorary Chairman
• since 2004:
  Honorary Chairman

• 1967-1991:
  I.C.I. Switzerland
• 1977-1981:
  Alusuisse, Zürich
• 1978-1996:
  Crédit Suisse, Zürich
• 1981-2001:
  Nestlé, Vevey (Deputy Chairman of the Board)
• 1989-1996:
  IBM Corporation, Armonk
• 1997-2005:
  Bank Sal. Oppenheim jr., Zurich

• Honorary Chairman of the Fritz Gerber Foundation for talented young people
• Chairman of the Paul Sacher Foundation for contemporary music (until April 2006)
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Lucerne Music Festival (until 2004)
• Member of the “Orchesterakademie des Philharmonischen Orchesters Berlin” (until 2004)

• Colonel of artillery