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 Sustainability" and "Personnel & Compensation".
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.
He is majority shareholder and Chairman & Delegate of the Board of Directors of SIHAG Swiss Industrial Holding AG, Uetikon (no connection with Swiss Industrial Finance AG); Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Single Group GmbH, Hochdorf (Germany) 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.
Kaspar W. Kelterborn, lic. oec. HSG, born in 1964 and a Swiss national, has been Chair of the Finance, Auditing & Sustainability Committee since 2015.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Burckhardt Compression Holding AG, Winterthur, a member of the Board of Directors of EMS-CHEMIE AG, Domat/Ems, a member of the Board of Directors of Karl Bubenhofer AG, Gossau (SG), a member of the Board of Directors of Wipf Holding AG, Brugg and a member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen, and is the 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.
Claudine Mollenkopf has been President of the Specialty Additives Division at Evonik Industries and a member of the Executive Board of Evonik Operations GmbH, Essen, since 2022. She can draw on over 25 years of experience in the chemicals 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.
Manuel Werder has been a partner since 2015 and the CFO since 2024 of the Niederer Kraft Frey AG law firm in Zurich. He is a member of the Board of Directors of UBV Holding AG, Uetikon and a member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen, serves on the boards of directors of various further unlisted companies and is a trustee of several foundations.
He was previously a senior associate at Niederer Kraft Frey AG, Zurich (2010–2015), a secondee to Allende & Brea Abogados, Buenos Aires (2007–2008), an associate at Niederer Kraft Frey AG, Zurich (2004–2007) and a foreign associate at Fox Horan & Camerini LLP, New York (2002–2004).
Christian Wipf is Chairman & Delegate of the Board of Directors of Wipf Holding AG, Brugg, chairman of the boards of directors of various subsidiaries within the Wipf Group and a member of the Board of Directors of Perlen Industrieholding AG, Perlen.
He previously served as CEO of the Wipf Group, Brugg (1997–2020), as CEO of Wipf AG, Volketswil (2001– 2007) and as a member of Executive Management at Seetal Schaller AG, Brugg (1991–1997), and held various executive functions at Philips AG, Zurich and at Philips Electronics Ltd, Montreal between 1982 and 1991.