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Anton Affentranger

 
Anton Affentranger represents the lead investor as Chairman of the Board. A Swiss national, born and raised in South America, Anton Affentranger studied Economics and Politics at Geneva University where he received his Masters Degree. In 1981, Anton Affentranger started his career at UBS where he successively occupied the positions of Head of Project Finance in New York and Branch Manager in Hong Kong and Geneva, before being appointed to the Executive Management Board of UBS in Zurich in 1996. From 1998 to 2000, he was Managing Partner and CEO of the private bank Lombard Odier & Cie in Geneva. He leaves Lombard Odier & Cie to join the pharmaceutical group Roche in Basel as CFO.

He is the founder of affentranger associates sa in Geneva, Chairman of Implenia AG , Dietlikon,
Chairman of Dartfish SA , Fribourg, forteq AG , Nidau and SIRS-Lab GmbH in Jena, Germany.


 
Patrick Kilchmann

 
Born 1958, Patrick F. Kilchmann studied Physics at ETH Zurich, followed by a second degree study in Economic Science at University of St. Gallen. (Dipl. phys. ETH, lic. oec HSG.)

1986 Director Human Resource Development (Sandoz AG, Basel);
1990 Sales Engineer (Schindler AG, Ebikon);
1992 Division Manager for industrialized cooling systems, Director Human Resources. Director Corporate Development and Member of Corporate Board. (Sulzer AG, Winterthur);
2002 Area Manager construction machines and technology;
Today Chief of Staff Ammann Group, responsible for M&A, HRM, Communication, PR, legal department, general secretariat, IT and real estate (Ammann Group, Langenthal)

• Board Member at Forteq AG Nidau, SELFRAG AG Kerzers and Mikron Holding AG Biel
  (since April 2011)
• Chairman at training center AZW Winterthur
• Colonel, General staff member, former Commander Flab Br 33


 
Franz Wyss

 
• Born 1956, Franz Wyss joined SELFRAG in 2008 as CTO.
• Since 2010 he has been a member of the Board of Directors
• 32 years of industry experience in machining sector including:

1990 – 2002

Mikron SA Agno/Rottweil: different management positions
2003 – 2008 Mikron SA Agno, COO Machining Division
2010 EROWA AG, CEO
              
• Franz Wyss holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from FH Lucerne with a post-graduate degree in management from HWV Lucerne