The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of CPH Group AG is entrusted with the overall management of the company and the CPH Group. The Board has created two committees, "Finance & Auditing" and "Personnel & Compensation".

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Peter Schaub, lic. iur., attorney-at-law, born 1960 and a Swiss national, is Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2010.

He has been a partner at Weber Schaub & Partner AG, Tax and Legal Consultancy, Zurich, since 1994. Peter Schaub is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Scobag Privatbank AG, Basel; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zindel Immo Holding AG, Chur; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mobimo AG, Lucerne; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss Industrial Finance AG, Zurich; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen; Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBV Holding AG, Uetikon; Member of the Board of Directors of Rüegg Cheminée Holding AG, Zumikon. Peter Schaub is a member of the Board of Directors of various other unlisted companies and a trustee of various foundations.

From 1990 to 1993 he was a tax commissioner at the Zurich cantonal tax office and from 1987 to 1988 a trainee at the law firm Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich.

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Tim Talaat, MSEE and MBA, born 1960 and a Swiss national, is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2015 and Chair of its Personnel & Compensation Committee since 2020.

He is majority shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIHAG Swiss Industrial Holding AG, Uetikon (this company has no connection with Swiss Industrial Finance AG); Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Single Group GmbH, Hochdorf (D) and member of the Board of Directors of Bachofen AG, Uster.

From 2009-2015 he was CEO of Looser Holding AG, Arbon; from 2003-2007 CEO of SR Technics Switzerland and from 1996-2003 a member of the Group Executive Board of the SR Technics Group, Zurich Airport.

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Kaspar W. Kelterborn, lic. oec. HSG, born 1964 and a Swiss national, is Chair of the Finance & Auditing Committee since 2015.

He is Member of the Board of Directors of Burckhardt Compression AG, Winterthur; Member of the Board of Directors of Karl Bubenhofer AG, Gossau (SG); Member of the Board of Directors of RUAG International Holding AG, Bern; Member of the Board of Directors of Wipf Holding AG, Brugg; Member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Conzzeta pension fund, Zurich and owner of Kelterborn Advisory AG, Wangen (SZ).

In 2022 he was Group CFO ad interim and member of the Executive Committee of the dormakaba Group, Rümlang; 2006-2021 Group CFO and member of the Executive Committee of the Conzzeta Group, Zurich; 2002-2005 Group CFO and member of the Executive Committee of the Unaxis Group, Pfäffikon, and 1996-2002 he held senior finance and controlling positions in Switzerland and abroad for the Clariant Group, Muttenz.

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Claudine Mollenkopf, born 1966, is a German and French citizen and has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Human Resources and Compensation Committee since 2021.

She has headed the Specialty Additives Division at Evonik Industries since 2022 and is a member of the Executive Board of Evonik Operations GmbH, Essen. Claudine Mollenkopf has more than 25 years of experience in the chemical industry. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen.

2019-2022 she was Senior Vice President and General Manager Silicas at Evonik Operations GmbH, Essen; 2011-2019 Member of the Executive Committee of Orion Engineered Carbons S.A., Luxembourg, and 2018-2019 President Orion Engineered Carbons France SAS, Berre L’Etang; 1996-2010 she held various management positions in the Evonik Group, most recently as General Manager of the Rubber/MRG Industries Business Line.

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Manuel Werder, lic. iur. and LL.M., attorney-at-law, born 1974 and a Swiss national, has been Member of the Board of Directors since 2015.

He has been a partner at the law firm Niederer Kraft Frey AG, Zurich, since 2015; Member of the Board of Directors of UBV Holding AG, Uetikon; Member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen; Member of the Board of Directors of various other unlisted companies and Member of the Board of Trustees of various foundations.

2010-2015 he was Senior Associate of Niederer Kraft Frey AG, Zurich; 2007-2008 Secondment Allende & Brea Abogados, Buenos Aires; 2004-2007 Associate of Niederer Kraft Frey AG, Zurich, and 2002-2004 Foreign Associate Fox Horan & Camerini LLP, New York.

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Christian Wipf, lic. oec. HSG, born 1957, is a Swiss national, and Member of the Board since 2008.

Christian Wipf is Chairman and Delegate of the Board of Directors of Wipf Holding AG, Brugg, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of various subsidiaries of the Wipf Group; and Member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen.

From 1997 to 2020 he was CEO of the Wipf Group, Brugg; 2001-2007 CEO of Wipf AG, Volketswil; 1991-1997 on the Executive Board of Seetal Schaller AG, Brugg; 1982-1991 in various management positions at Philips AG, Zurich, and Philips Electronics Ltd, Montreal.