Executive Board
Michel Hirschi
Chief Financial Officer, Swiss citizen
Education
Business School (banking industry). Training in software programming and analysis. BSC Economics and Business Administration, College of Higher Education Executive Master of Corporate Finance, College of Higher Education Central Switzerland
1983–1993
Analyst and Programmer at Valiant Bank, CH-Berne
1995–1997
Team Leader/Project Leader of a BPR project at the newly formed banking information-outsourcing company RBA-Service Ltd in Gümligen, CH-Berne
1997–1999
Profit Centre Controller at Swatch Ltd, CH-Biel, for profit centres FlikFlak, Swatch Telecom and Swatch Access
1999–2002
Head of Controlling at Swisscom Group, CH-Berne, responsible for supervising the business unit International Business Solutions, project participation and Project Manager, inter alia for a project involving the development of a completely new value flow model in SAP
2002–2006
Chief Financial Officer, responsible for Finance, Administration and Human Resources and member of the Executive Board at Infonet Schweiz AG, CH-Berne (joint venture between Swisscom and Infonet USA)
2006–2010
Member of the Executive Board and CFO of Meyer Burger Ltd, CH-Thun
Since 2006
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Board of the Company, Deputy CEO
Other activities and vested interests
Former mandates:
Member of the Board of Directors of Comsol AG, CH-Berne from 2001 to 2003. Member of the Board of Directors of CLS Corporate Language Services Holding AG, CH-Basel from 2009 until 2014, and member of the CLS Audit Committee from 2010 until 2014. Member of the Board of Directors of Zurmont Capital I AG, CH-Baar from 2005 to 2017; member of the Board of Directors and of the Investment Committee of Zurmont Madison Management AG, CH-Zurich from 2006 to 2017.
Current mandates:
Member of the Board of Directors, Supervisory Board and/or of the Executive Board of different subsidiaries of Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. No further mandates for Board memberships or consulting activities for important Swiss or foreign organisations. No significant official functions or political offices.