Victor Lorenz Gnehm
Chairman

(Swiss), 1965, non-executive Vice Chairman since 2005 and, as of October 1st 2016, Chairman until the next ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. Victor Gnehm is an attorney and partner of Schnurrenberger Tober Gnehm & Partner in Zug, Switzerland (www.stgp.ch). He specializes in commercial and financial law. Victor Gnehm began his career as an investment banker and capital markets specialist for emerging markets with one of Switzerland’s top global banks. He held various positions with the bank in Switzerland/Zurich, Russia/Moscow and Ukraine/Kyiv where as a member of the local executive board he built up and headed the Structured Finance und Trade Finance group. In 1998, Victor Gnehm left the bank in order to join the Zurich office of one of the globally leading management consulting firms as a director. Since 2002 Victor Gnehm is practising as an attorney and partner. Victor Gnehm studied at the Bern University and the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales (IUHEI), Geneva, and finished his studies with a Master's degree equivalent in law. He is admitted to the bars of Switzerland and is a registered member of the Zug and Swiss bar associations as well as several other professional and commercial associations and chambers.