Schindler Holding AG Announces Organizational Changes on the Group Executive Committee
September 25, 2020 at 12:30 am EDT
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The Board of Directors has decided to appoint Sabine Simeon-Aissaoui, currently Head of Supply Chain Europe, as a member of the Group Executive Committee responsible for Escalators and Supply Chain with effect from January 1, 2021. Sabine Simeon-Aissaoui will succeed Egbert Weisshaar who, after more than 27 years with the Schindler Group, will retire and therefore leave the Group Executive Committee on December 31, 2020. Therefore, as of January 1, 2021, the Group Executive Committee will be composed of the following members: Thomas Oetterli (CEO), David Clymo (Global Human Resources and Deputy CEO), Julio Arce (Europe South), Matteo Attrovio (CIO), Karl-Heinz Bauer (CTO), Paolo Compagna (Europe North), Andre Inserra (Americas), Jujudhan Jena (Asia Pacific), Urs Scheidegger (CFO), Christian Schulz (Operations), Robert Seakins (Field Quality & Excellence), Sabine Simeon-Aissaoui (Escalators and Supply Chain) and Daryoush Ziai (China).
Schindler Holding AG is a Switzerland-based holding company that specializes in the manufacture of escalators, elevators and moving walks. It operates globally within one main segment: Elevators and Escalators. The Elevators and Escalators segment provides a range of elevators for different applications, including freight and special elevators, high-rise elevators, residential elevators and commercial elevators. It also offers commercial and public transport escalators, as well as inclined and horizontal moving walks. It's affiliated company, ALSO Holding AG, which provided information and communications technology and consumer electronics in the wholesale and logistics sectors, was disposed during 2011 and merged with Actebis GmbH, forming ALSO-Actebis Holding AG. In June 2014, closed the real estate development project Mall of Switzerland (formerly EbiSquare) together with Halter AG and sold its stake in EbiSquare AG to Halter AG