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Alfred N. Schindler (1949, Switzerland)
Chairman, executive member, term of office expires in 2011
joined the Board of Directors in July 1977 and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1995. Since 1985 Alfred N. Schindler has been CEO of the Schindler Group and a member 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, 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
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. Karl Hofstetter (1956, Switzerland)
Executive member, term expires 2012
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 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. As of 2010, he will be 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. During the spring term 2009 he lectured at Harvard Law School, USA, as a visiting professor.

Prof. Dr. Pius Baschera (1950, Switzerland and Italy)
Non-executive member, term expires 2011
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 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, 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, Switzerland. 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 2011
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. He resigned from his board membership of MAN AG in March 2007, and of Deutsche Post AG in July 2007, as well as his position of 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 2012
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; GEMS, Hong Kong; and ACE, Bermuda. He is chairman of the trustees of the Oxford University Business School Foundation, chairman of the UK Asia Task Force, 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. He 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
was elected to the Board of Directors in March 2007. He has been a member of the Audit Committee of the Schindler Group since March 2007 and has been its Chairman since July 2008. In addition, since September 2006 he has been a member of the Audit Expert Group, and since July 2008 its chairman. Since 2007, Alexander Schaub has also been of counsel with the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP at its Brussels office, as well as a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen. Alexander Schaub began his career at the European Commission in Brussels in 1973 in the office of Ralf Dahrendorf and subsequently worked for Commissioners Guido Brunner, Etienne Davignon, and Willy De Clerq, and for Commission President Gaston Thorn. From 1995 to 2002, he was director general for competition with commission members Karel van Miert and Mario Monti. During this period he oversaw the preparations for major reforms (modernization) of European policy on competition. He subsequently worked 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.

Rolf Schweiger (1945, Switzerland)
Non-executive member, term expires 2012
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. Since 1999, he has 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 the following committees of the Swiss Council of States: the Finance Committee and chairman of Subcommittee 2 (EDA/EVD); the Economics and Taxes Committee; the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy Committee (as chairman); the Law Committee, the Courts Committee and chairman of its subcommittees. 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 property and building construction industries (including Hammer Retex Holding AG, Cham, Switzerland), 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 non-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 attorney and notary. Since 1976 he has been a partner in the legal firm of Schweiger Attorney and Notary, Zug, Switzerland.

Dr. Jenö C. A. Staehelin (1940, Switzerland)
Non-executive member, term expires 2011
was elected to the Board of Directors in June 1980. In 1969 he entered the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) where he worked as a legal consultant before being appointed vice chairman of the European Patent Organization 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 United Nations in New York. Starting January 2003, Jenö Staehelin was president of the executive board of UNICEF for one year. 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, and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva. 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.

Dr. Klaus W. Wellershoff (1964, Germany)
Non-executive member, term expires 2012
was elected to membership of the Board of Directors in March 2009. From June 1995 until spring 2009 Dr. Wellershoff worked for UBS. From 1997 to 1998 he was Chief Economist of the then Swiss Bank Corporation. 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. Before 2003, he held the position of chief economist and 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. Dr. Wellershoff is a member 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 baking apprenticeship with private bankers Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie, Klaus W. 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 W. Wellershoff holds a doctorate in economics from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

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