2019 Hilti Company Report Michael Hilti Schaan, Liechtenstein 1946, elected Honorary Chair- man at the 2018 Annual General Meeting Michael Hilti, son of company founder Professor Martin Hilti, has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1990 and acted Daniel Daeniker as its Chairman from 1994 to Zürich, Switzerland 2006. After studying business 1963, elected until the administration at the University of 2021 Annual General Meeting St. Gallen, he joined the family- owned company in 1975 and was Daniel Daeniker joined the Board named to the Executive Board one of Directors in 2018. He is the Senior Partner of Homburger AG, year later. From 1990 to 1993, he held the position of CEO. Michael a commercial law firm in Zurich. Hilti is Trustee of the Martin Hilti He also holds a board mandate with dormakaba Holding AG Family Trust, member of the Board of the Hilti Foundation and Chair- (Switzerland), is a member of the Supervisory Board of Rothschild & man of the Hilti Art Foundation. Co SCA (France) and a lecturer at ▶ the University of Zurich. ▼ Heinrich Fischer Chairman of the Board of Directors Rüschlikon, Switzerland 1950, re-elected until the ▲ 2022 Annual General Meeting ▲ Carla De Geyseleer Prof. Dr. Pius Baschera Erembodegem, Belgium Zurich, Switzerland Heinrich Fischer was elected to 1968, elected until the 1950, re-elected until the the Board of Directors in 2007 and BOARD OF DIRECTORS became its Chairman in April 2017. 2022 Annual General Meeting 2022 Annual General Meeting Prior to his tenure at Hilti, Heinrich Carla De Geyseleer joined the Pius Baschera joined the Board Fischer, who holds degrees Hilti promotes a corporate culture in which employees listen to one another and feel Board of Directors in 2019. She of Directors in 2006. He served as in electrical engineering and welcome to voice their own opinions, be it in a brainstorming session as a team or when holds an Executive MBA from the its Chairman until April 2017 when technical physics (Swiss Federal meeting with the Board of Directors. The potential to exchange views and perspectives Institute for Management Devel- he ceded this position to Heinrich Institute of Technology Zurich) and provides the basis for creative, innovative and effective thought processes while uniting Fischer. After earning his doctorate business administration, was CEO opment in Lausanne, Switzerland. diversity with success. The link between a globally operating company and the caring Since October 2019 she has been in mechanical engineering and of Saurer AG. Heinrich Fischer is a business administration from the member of the Board of Directors characteristics of a family-owned operation is what has made Hilti into an attractive and CFO of Volvo Car Group in Sweden. of Tecan AG and Sensirion AG. award-winning employer. She previously served for several Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, he joined Hilti in 1979 years as CFO for SGS in Geneva, ▼ as Head of Financial Controlling Switzerland, Libertel B.V. and DHL Express Benelux, both located in for production. He served as the the Netherlands. Before that, she company’s CEO for 13 years beginning in 1994. Since April 2017 served in multiple 昀椀nance and business development roles on a he has been Speaker of the Martin Hilti Family Trust. regional and global level at DHL. Kim Fausing Barbara Milian Thoralfsson Sønderborg, Denmark Oslo, Norway 1964, re-elected until the 1959, re-elected until the 2022 Annual General Meeting 2020 Annual General Meeting Kim Fausing was elected to the Board of Directors in 2010. He holds Barbara Milian Thoralfsson was a degree in mechanical engineering elected to the Board of Directors in 2014. She has an MBA in marketing and an MBA. Kim Fausing joined Hilti in 1990 where he held various and 昀椀nance from Columbia management positions in Europe University and a BA in psychology and Asia until 2007. In 2007, he from Duke University. She has moved to the Danish Danfoss Group held various CEO positions in the and in 2008, he was appointed COO telecom and consumer goods and member of the Group Executive industries. Since 2006 she has been Team. In July 2017, he became an entrepreneur in the industrial President and CEO of the Danfoss sector building a company that Group. today is the largest recycler of plastics in Scandinavia. She is ▶ ▶ also a director on the boards of SCA AB and Essity AB in Sweden and G4S Plc in the UK. ▶ 64–65