Schindler Holding AG has proposed Silvio Napoli for election as chairman. Alfred Schindler will continue to serve as board member and as member of the new nomination committee. The other members of the nomination committee will be Silvio Napoli (chair), Luc Bonnard and Karl Hofstetter. Tobias Staehelin will be proposed for election to the board of directors at the shareholders meeting of March 16, 2017, and Patrice Bula will be proposed as a new member of the compensation committee. Pius Baschera will become deputy chairman and Monika Butler will serve as a member of the audit committee. All board members, except Rolf Schweiger and Klaus Wellershoff, will stand for re-election at the shareholders meeting of March 16, 2017. Based on the long-term succession plan, the board of directors decided that Michael Nilles, chief digital officer, will be proposed for election to the board of directors at the shareholders meeting of March 2018, and will serve thereafter on the board's supervisory and strategy committee (formerly supervisory and nomination committee). In his future function, Michael Nilles will drive Schindler's digital strategy at group level and have functional oversight over all IoT-activities. Until his successor will be appointed, Michael Nilles will continue to report in his current function to the CEO. As a consequence, the supervisory and strategy committee will temporarily be composed of two members only, Silvio Napoli, Chairman, and Karl Hofstetter. Christian Schulz, currently heading the Service Business, has been appointed head of operations, and therefore will be accountable for both, the New Installations and the Service Business. Egbert Weisshaar, currently heading the Escalator Division, has been appointed to the group executive committee as head of Escalators and Supply Chain. Oswald Schmid, currently heading the new installations and supply chain, will step down from the group executive committee. He will continue to support the group as a consultant in his field of expertise. The above changes will be effective February 1, 2017. Furthermore, the board of directors decided to redistribute management responsibilities within the geographical zones as follows: the responsibility for the Middle East operations will move from Zone APME (Asia Pacific and Middle East) to Zone Europe South. Miguel A. Rodriguez, currently heading Zone APME, will leave the group executive committee. He will continue to work for the group until his retirement in 2018. Robert Seakins, currently CEO Schindler Australia, has been appointed to the group executive committee as head of Zone Asia Pacific. The above changes will be effective April 1, 2017. As a consequence, the group executive committee will, as of April 1, 2017, be composed as follows: Thomas Oetterli (CEO), Erich Ammann (CFO and Deputy CEO), Karl-Heinz Bauer (CTO), David Clymo (Corporate Human Resources), Paolo Compagna (Europe North), Carlos Guembe (Europe South), Albert Haffert (Field Quality & Excellence), Andre Inserra (Americas), Michael Nilles (Chief Digital Officer), Christian Schulz (Operations), Robert Seakins (Asia Pacific and India), Egbert Weisshaar (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