Career: Various management positions at Sulzer in the field of manufacturing from 1984 to 2002. Co-owner, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burckhardt Compression Holding AG (since 2002); President of the Swiss Employers’ Association (Since 2011), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kistler Holding AG (since 2019, Member since 2011), Member of the Board of Directors of Bucher Industries AG (since 2014) and of Ernst Göhner Beteiligungen AG (since 2011).

President of Non-Profit Association Check Your Chance “together against youth unemployment in Switzerland” (since 2015).