Anton Scherrer Chairman born 1942, Swiss national Degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) / Dr. sc. techn. ETH

Career: Research, consultation and managerial positions in a variety of industrial and brewing companies in Switzerland and abroad; delegate to the Board of Directors of Hürlimann Holding AG; managerial positions in the Migros Cooperative Association (MGB) responsible for 14 industrial enterprises and for the group logistics, the last four years as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Retail Trade Committee of the Migros Cooperative Association, until the end of June 2005 Chairman of the Board of Directors of Migrosbank, the Globus retail group and the international travel organisation Hotelplan.

Other mandates: Member of the Executive Board of economiesuisse, member of the Advisory Board of the corporate group Theo Müller GmbH & Co., KG, Aretsried (Germany), member of the Advisory Board of Digma Management Consulting AG, Zurich, member of the Managerial Committee of the Institute for Marketing and Trade at the University of St Gallen.