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

  1995-2020
  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

  2004-2020
  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