Ernst Tanner (ch)
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
Lindt & Sprüngli
Switzerland
Biography
As of October 1st, 2016, Mr Tanner is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Before he held the position as Group CEO from 1993-2016 and Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1994-2016. He completed a commercial education and then attended business school in London and at Harvard. Before joining Lindt & Sprüngli, Mr Tanner held top management positions for more than 25 years with the Johnson & Johnson Group in Europe and in the USA, last as Company Group Chairman Europe. Mr Tanner has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Swatch Group since 1995, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2011, as well as member of the Compensation Committee since 2002 and Chairman of this Committee since May 2014. He also has a seat on the Advisory Board of both the German Krombacher Brauerei GmbH & Co. KG and the Austrian SIGNA Group.
Research Interest
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