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Alfred N. Schindler (1949, Switzerland)
Chairman, executive member, term of office expires in 2011
Mr Schindler has been a member of the Board of Directors since July 1977, and CEO of the Schindler Group since 1985. Since 1995, Alfred N. Schindler has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors. 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 on Schindler, Alfred N. Schindler has relinquished his board memberships of the following companies: Bank Julius Bär, UBS, Jacobs Suchard 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, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Luc Bonnard (1946, Switzerland)
Vice Chairman, executive member, term expires 2011
Mr Bonnard has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 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. He is a member of the board of directors of Bobst Group SA, Lausanne. Luc Bonnard holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Alfred Spörri (1938, Switzerland)
Executive member, retired 2008
Mr Spörri was a member of the Board of Directors, and of the Executive Committee of the Board, from 1995. From 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the former Executive Management Committee. He joined the Schindler Group in 1968 as CFO of Schindler Mexico and Area Controller for Latin America. From 1975 he was head of the subsidiary in Mexico, before returning to Switzerland in 1979 as Group Controller and Treasurer. From 1988 to 1997 he was CFO of the Group. Alfred Spörri is a member of the Swiss Takeover Board. He is chairman of the board of directors of Tehag Freizeit AG in Meierskappel and a member of the board of directors of Art Bowling, also in Meierskappel. After completing a commercial apprenticeship he qualified as a Swiss Certified Public Accountant in 1965, and in 1970 gained an MBA from Las Américas University, Mexico.

Prof Dr Karl Hofstetter (1956, Switzerland)
Executive member, term expires 2009
Prof Hofstetter was elected to the Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting of 2006 and as an executive member has been active since then as Group General Counsel. Karl Hofstetter has worked for Schindler since 1990. Until the Annual General Meeting of 2006 Karl Hofstetter was a member of the Executive Committee Elevators & Escalators. Karl Hofstetter is a member of the board of directors of ALSO Holding AG, and of Venture Incubator AG, Zug. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the University of Lucerne, of the Commission of Experts on Disclosure of Shareholdings of the SWX Swiss Exchange, and of the Arbitration Commission of the Central Swiss Chamber of Commerce. Karl Hofstetter studied 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 business law at the University of Zurich. For one month in November 2007 he was a visiting professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Prof Dr Pius Baschera (1950, Switzerland and Italy)
Non-executive member, term expires 2011
Prof Baschera was elected to membership of 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, then of Hilti Germany GmbH, and in 1989 became responsible for the market region Europe 1. In 1990, as chief financial officer, he was made 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, and a member 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 (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. On completion of his studies in mechanical engineering and management science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Pius Baschera was awarded a doctor of science degree.

Dr Hubertus von Grünberg (1942, Germany)
Non-executive member, term expires 2011
Dr von Grünberg has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 1999. On completing his education, he first worked for Teves GmbH, Frankfurt (ITT). 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. Since June 1999 he has been 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, Germany. He relinquished his directorship of MAN AG in March 2007 and Deutsche Post AG in July 2007, as well as his position of an advisor to BHF Bank AG. Since May 3, 2007, Dr. von Grünberg has been chairman of the board of directors of ABB Ltd., Zurich. Hubertus von Grünberg holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Cologne, Germany.

Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG (1941, UK)
Non-executive member, term expires 2009
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 Safinvest, London, and Magna Holdings 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; Matheson & Co Ltd, London; Financière Agache, Paris; Singapore Millennium Foundation, Singapore; Falgos Investments, London; Yell Group Ltd, London; and Northern Trust Global Services, Chicago/London. He is a member of several company advisory boards including Rolls-Royce, Derby; Barrick Gold, Toronto; Thales, Paris; GEMS, Hong Kong, and ACE, Bermuda. He is chairman of the trustees of the Oxford University Business School Foundation, chairman of the China-Britain Business Council, chairman of the Atlantic Partnership, London, as well as a trustee of the British Museum, London, and of the Aspen Institute, USA. Lord Powell is an independent member of the House of Lords. Lord Powell gained a Master of Arts degree with first-class honors in history at Oxford University.

Dr Alexander Schaub (1941, Germany)
Non-executive member, term expires 2010
Dr Schaub was elected to membership of the Board of Directors in March 2007. He has been a member of the Audit Committee of the Schindler Group since September 2006. Since February 2007, Alexander Schaub has also been an Of Counsel member of the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer at its Brussels office. Alexander Schaub began his career at the European Commission in Brussels in 1973 in the office of Ralf Dahrendorf, and subsequently worked as deputy office head to Guido Brunner, Etienne Davignon, and commission president Gaston Thorn, as well as office head to Willy De Clercq. In 1989 he transferred to the Directorate General for External Relations and Trade Policy as director for trade. From 1995 to 2002 he was director general for competition with commission members Karel van Miert and Mario Monti. He then worked under the political responsibility of commission members Frits Bolkestein and Charlie McCreevy as director general internal market and services until he retired in mid-2006. Alexander Schaub studied law and economics at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn, Germany; Lausanne, Switzerland; and the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Dr. Jenö C. A. Staehelin (1940, Switzerland)
Non-executive member, term expires 2011
Dr Staehelin was elected to the Board of Directors in June 1980. Between 1969 and 1977 he worked as a legal advisor in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), before being appointed vice chairman of the European Patent Office in Munich in 1977. In 1984 he returned to the FDFA where in 1987 he was appointed an ambassador, and head of the Department for Europe and North America. At the same time as holding this office, from 1991 to 1993 he was also a special ambassador to the Vatican. In April 1993, he was made Swiss Ambassador to Japan, following which in June 1997 he was appointed permanent Swiss observer at the United Nations in New York. Subsequent to Switzerland's entry to the United Nations, from 2002 to 2004 he became the first permanent representative of Switzerland at the UN. Starting January 2003, Jenö Staehelin was for one year president of the Executive Board of UNICEF. In the following year, he began a two-year term as chairman of the United Nations Mine Action Support Group. He was also Swiss commissioner for the World Exhibition 2005 in Aichi, Japan. He is currently a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Kofi Annan Foundation, the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, and the board of directors of BAK Basel Economics. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Berne, a master of law degree from Harvard Law School, USA, and is a licensed attorney in Zurich.

Robert Studer (1938, Switzerland)
Non-executive member, term expires 2011
Mr Studer has been a member of the Board of Directors since July 1981. From 1991 to 1996 he was president of the executive committee of the Union Bank of Switzerland, and from 1996 to 1998 chairman of the board of directors of the same bank. Robert Studer is a member of the boards of directors of BASF AG, Ludwigshafen; and the Espirito Santo Financial Group SA, Luxembourg. After completing a commercial apprenticeship he gained a diploma in business at the Zurich Management School in 1969.

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