Board and Management Board Members' activities and interests

Alfred N. Schindler (1949, Switzerland)
Chairman, executive member, term of office expires in 2014
joined the Board of Directors in July 1977 and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1995. From 1985 until September 30, 2011, Alfred N. Schindler was CEO of the Group and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. After handing over the function of CEO he remains Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. Before joining the Schindler Group he was employed by Neutra Treuhand AG in Berne, later becoming CFO of Notz AG in Biel. In order to focus entirely on Schindler, Alfred N. Schindler resigned from his board memberships of the following companies: Bank Julius Bär, UBS, Jacobs Suchard (all Switzerland), and Deutsche Post AG. He still is a member of the European Advisory Board of the Wharton School. Alfred N. Schindler holds a degree in law from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Luc Bonnard (1946, Switzerland)
Vice Chairman, term expires 2014
has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 1984, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board since 1991. Since 1996 he has been Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Luc Bonnard joined Schindler in 1972, and from 1983 was a member of the Management Committee with responsibility for northern Europe. From 1986 until 1990 he was head of the Group’s elevators and escalators business. Luc Bonnard holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Prof. Dr. Peter Athanas (1954, Switzerland)
Executive member, term expires 2013
was elected to the Board of Directors in March 2010, and took up his position on August 2, 2010. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board. Between 1984 and 2002, Peter Athanas worked for the globally active Arthur Andersen organization, where he advanced in 1990 to partner, in 1994 to head of tax and legal practice, and in 2001 to CEO Switzerland and a member of the global board. From 2002 to 2004, he was chairman of the board of directors, and from 2004 to 2008 CEO, of Ernst & Young Switzerland. During this time he was also a member of the global executive board of Ernst & Young Global, as well as a member of the global management group. Peter Athanas is a member of the management committee of the Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal Law of the University of St. Gallen, a council member of the Foundation for the Promotion of Studies for the Master of Law and Economics of the University of St. Gallen, and a curator of the Werner Siemens Foundation. Between 1992 and 1999 he was a lecturer, and since 1999 is professor, of national and international tax law at the University of St. Gallen. Peter Athanas completed his studies at the University of St. Gallen with a master of law and economics in 1979 and gained his doctorate in economics at the University of St. Gallen in 1988.

Dr. Rudolf W. Fischer (1952, Switzerland)
Executive member, term expires 2015
was elected to the Board of Directors on March 19, 2012. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board. From January 1996 to December 2011, Rudolf Fischer was a member of the Schindler Management Committee, with responsibility for Corporate Human Resources, Management Training, and Corporate Safety & Health. From 1994 to 1995, he was a partner in Dr. Björn Johansson Associates, an executive search company in Zurich. From 1991 to 1994, he was CEO of Jockey/Vollmöller AG in Uster, and subsequently of Hanro AG in Liestal, both in Switzerland. Previously, for almost nine years, he held various managerial positions in human resources and trade marketing with Jacobs Suchard in Switzerland and Belgium. From 1980 to 1982, he was a management trainee with Zürcher Kantonalbank and First National Bank of Boston. He is a member of the board of directors of Vetropack Holding AG, Bülach. Rudolf Fischer completed his studies in 1979 with a doctorate in economics at the University of Zurich.

Prof. Dr. Karl Hofstetter (1956, Switzerland)
Executive member, term expires 2015
was elected to the Board of Directors in March 2006 with executive responsibility as Group General Counsel. Karl Hofstetter has worked for Schindler since 1990. Until the General Meeting of Shareholders of 2006 he was a member of the Management Committee Elevators & Escalators. Karl Hofstetter is a member of the Board of Directors of ALSO-Actebis Holding AG, Hergiswil, Switzerland, and of Venture Incubator AG, Zug, Switzerland. He is a member of the University Council of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, of the Commission of Experts on Disclosure of the SIX Swiss Exchange, and of the Arbitration Commission of the Central Swiss Chamber of Commerce. In addition, as from 2010 he is a board member of the Kuoni and Hugentobler Foundation, Switzerland. Karl Hofstetter studied law and economics at the universities of Zurich, Stanford, UCLA, and Harvard. He is a licensed attorney in Zurich and New York, as well as a professor of private and commercial law at the University of Zurich.

Prof. Dr. Pius Baschera (1950, Switzerland and Italy)
Non-executive member, term expires 2014
was elected to the Board of Directors in March 2005. He joined Hilti AG, Schaan, Liechtenstein, as head of production controlling in 1979, transferring in 1982 to Hilti Inc., Tulsa, USA, as head of corporate development. In 1985, Pius Baschera became head of Hilti (Switzerland) AG, followed by Hilti Germany GmbH, and in 1989 became responsible for the Europe 1 market region. In 1990, as chief financial officer, he became a member of the executive board of Hilti AG and from January 1994 until the end of 2006 was its chairman. On January 1, 2007, he became chairman of the board of directors of Hilti AG. He is also a member of the board of directors of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, of the advisory board of Vorwerk & Co, Wuppertal, and of Ardex, Witten, both in Germany, as well as chairman of the board of directors of Venture Incubator AG, Zug, Switzerland, and a professor of business administration at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. On completion of his studies in mechanical engineering and management science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Pius Baschera gained a degree of Dr.sc.techn.ETH.

Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg (1942, Germany)
Non-executive member, term expires 2014
has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 1999. On completing his studies, he first worked for Teves GmbH, a subsidiary of ITT, in Frankfurt. In 1989 he became president and CEO of ITT Automotive Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, and a senior vice president of ITT Corporation. From 1991 to 1999 he was president of the executive management committee of Continental AG, Hanover, Germany. From June 1999 to March 2009 he was chairman of the supervisory board of Continental AG. He is also a member of the supervisory boards of Allianz Versicherungs AG, Munich, and Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn, both in Germany, as well as chairman of the Advisory Board of Sapinda Holding B.V. Netherlands. He resigned from his board membership of MAN AG in March 2007 and of Deutsche Post AG in July 2007, as well as from his position as an advisor to BHF Bank AG. Since May 3, 2007, Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg has been chairman of the board of directors of ABB Ltd., Zurich. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Cologne, Germany.

Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG (1941, UK)
Non-executive member, term expires 2015
Charles Powell was elected to the Board of Directors in March 2003. From 1963 to 1982 he was a member of the British Diplomatic Service. From 1983 to 1991 he was private secretary and advisor on foreign affairs and defense to Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Since 1992, Lord Powell has been an international businessman. He is chairman of the board of directors of Magna Holdings International Ltd., Bermuda, and serves on the boards of Caterpillar Inc., Peroria, Illinois; Textron Corporation, Providence, USA; LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), Paris; Mandarin Oriental International Ltd., Bermuda; Hong Kong Land Holdings Ltd., Bermuda; Matheson & Co Ltd., London; Financière Agache, Paris; Singapore Millennium Foundation, Singapore; Falgos Investments, London; Northern Trust Global Services, Chicago/London, and Capital Generation Partners Ltd., London. He is a member of several company advisory boards including Rolls-Royce, Derby; Barrick Gold, Toronto; Thales, UK; Bowmark Capital LLP, UK; GEMS, Hong Kong; and ACE, Bermuda. He is also chairman of the trustees of the Oxford University Business School Foundation, chairman of the UK Asia Task Force, and chairman of the Atlantic Partnership, London, as well as a trustee of the British Museum Trust, London, and of the Aspen Institute, USA. Lord Powell is an independent member of the House of Lords. He gained a master of arts degree with first-class honors in history at Oxford University.

Rolf Schweiger (1945, Switzerland)
Non-executive member, term expires 2015
has been a member of the Board of Directors since March 2009. In 1969 Rolf Schweiger was elected to the parliament of the Canton of Zug, of which he remained a member for 22 years, 14 of them as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party section. From 1999 until 2011, he represented the Canton of Zug in the Swiss Council of States. In 2004 he was chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party in Switzerland. Rolf Schweiger is a member of committees of the Swiss Council of States tha include the following: the Finance Committee and chairman of Subcommittee 2 (EDA/EVD); the Economics and Taxes Committee; the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy Committee (as chairman); and the Law Committee. Rolf Schweiger is active in various political organizations including membership of the governing board of economiesuisse, president of Action for a Sensible Energy Policy in Switzerland (AVES), and president of the Federation of the Swiss Food Industries (fial). He is also a member of various boards of directors in the food segment (Hochdorf Holding AG, Hochdorf, Switzerland), and in the pharmaceutical segment as chairman of the board of directors of Roche Diagnostics AG, Risch, Switzerland. In addition, Rolf Schweiger is involved in various not-for-profit institutions, including chairmanship of the foundation "Ombudsman of Private Insurance and SUVA," Zurich. Rolf Schweiger studied law at Zurich University where he completed his academic education in 1969, graduating with a licentiate degree. In 1971 he gained his attorney's license in Zug and began his career as an attorney and notary. Since 1976 he has been a partner in the legal firm of Schweiger Attorney and Notary, Zug, Switzerland.

Dr. Klaus W. Wellershoff (1964, Germany)
Non-executive member, term expires 2015
was elected to membership of the Board of Directors in March 2009. From June 1995 until spring 2009 Klaus Wellershoff worked for UBS. From 1997 to 1998 he was Chief Economist of the then Swiss Bank Corporation and until spring 2009 of UBS. From 2003 until fall 2008 he held the function of global head wealth management research as well as chairman of the investment committee of the UBS Global Wealth Management & Business Banking Division. From 2003 he held the position of head of research of UBS Investment Bank Switzerland. Since September 1, 2009, he has been CEO of Wellershoff & Partners Ltd., an international independent management consultancy in Zurich. Klaus Wellershoff is president of the management committee of the Institute of Economics at the University of St. Gallen, and a council member of the World Demographic Association. On completion of his banking apprenticeship with private bankers Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Klaus Wellershoff studied economics and business administration at the University of St Gallen. While studying for his doctorate, he was appointed visiting fellow in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, USA. Klaus Wellershoff is Honorary Professor of applied economics at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

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