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Autoneum Annual Report 2015
Corporate Governance
This E. Schneider
(1952)
Board member
Swiss national
First elected to the Board
Board
member since 2011 .
Educational and
professional background
Lic. oec.
HSG; from 1991 to 1993 Chairman and
CEO of listed company SAFAA,
Paris; from 1994 to 1997 member of
the Executive Board, Valora Group,
as Managing Director of the Canteen
and Catering Division; from 1997 to
2002 Executive Chairman and CEO of
the Selecta Group; from 2004 until
March 2014 Executive Chairman and
CEO, Forbo Group; since 2014 Executive
Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Forbo Group .
Other activities and
interests
Board member, Galenica SA,
Bern; Rieter Holding Ltd, Winterthur
Committees
Chairman of the Compen-
sation and the Nomination Committee .
Non-executive
Peter Spuhler
(1959)
Board member
Swiss national
First elected to the Board
Board
member since 2011 .
Educational and
professional background
Majority
shareholder and CEO of Stadler Rail
Ltd, Bussnang .
Other activities and
interests
Chairman of the Board,
Stadler Rail Ltd, Bussnang, and of
several other companies of the Stadler
Rail Group, Aebi-Schmidt Holding
Ltd, Burgdorf, and PCS Holding Ltd,
Warth-Weiningen. Board member, Walo
Bertschinger Central Ltd, Zurich; Allreal
Holding Ltd, Baar; Rieter Holding Ltd,
Winterthur; DSH Holding Ltd, Warth-
Weiningen; Wohnpark Promenade
Ltd, Frauenfeld; Vice Chairman of ZLE
Betriebs Ltd, Zurich . Member of the
National Council of the Swiss Parliament
from 1999 to 2012 .
Non-executive
Ferdinand Stutz
(1957)
Board member
Swiss national
First elected to the Board
Board
member since 2011 .
Educational and
professional background
Dipl.
Giesserei-Ing. University of Duisburg;
from 1982 to 1989 Operations Manager
and Deputy Manager Foundry for Rieter
Ltd, Winterthur; from 1989 to 1994
Department Manager and as of 1994
co-partner and Executive Director of
Schubert & Salzer; from 1995 to 1997
Executive Director of Georg Fischer
Eisenguss GmbH, Leipzig; from 1998 to
2009 member of the Management
Board of Georg Fischer Ltd and CEO of
GF Automotive; since 2009 owner and
founder of Stutz Improvement Ltd .
Other activities and interests
Member
of the Advisory Board of Halder
Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH,
Frankfurt; member of the Board of
Directors or Advisory Board of other
joint stock companies .
Committees
Member of the Audit, the Strategy,
the Compensation and the Nomination
Committee .
Non-executive