Members of the Board of Directors
The following table sets forth the name, year of birth, position, year joined the Board of Directors, and directorship term of each member of the Board of Directors, all of whom except for Geoffrey Scott are non-executive directors. Click on each member’s name to view a short description of business experience, education and activities:
Dr. Barry James Mulady, Member of the Board of Directors
Barry James Mulady has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Uster Technologies Ltd since 2003 and is elected until 2012. He has been Chairman of PageOne Communications Ltd, London, England, since 2000 and is Chairman of ipTEST Ltd, Guildford, England. From 2000 to 2006, he served as a non-executive Director of Tellermate plc, Newport, Wales and Sensima Ltd, London. From 1996 to 1999 he was CEO of Airtech plc, Aylesbury, England. Prior to that, he served as President of Fisons Instruments Europe and CEO of VG Instruments plc. He has broad experience in general management, mergers and acquisitions and business development. Barry James Mulady earned a First Class Honours degree in Physics and a PhD in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance from the University of Nottingham. He was born in 1947 and is a British citizen.
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Akira Onishi, Member of the Board of Directors
Akira Onishi has been elected a Member of the Board of Directors of Uster Technologies Ltd in 2010 for a period of three years until 2013 and acts as representative of the strategic investor Toyota Industries Corporation. He started his carrier as sales and marketing manager in the textile machinery division of Toyota Industries Corporation in 1981. Later he was active in various management functions mainly in Corporate Planning. Akira Onishi currently holds the positions of Senior Managing Officer Textile Machinery Business Unit and Head Corporate Planning. Akira Onishi earned a degree in law from Nagoya University, Japan. He was born in 1958 and is a Japanese citizen.
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Harald Rönn, Member of the Board of Directors
Harald Rönn has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Uster Technologies Ltd since 2007 and is elected until 2011. Prior to joining Alpha Beteiligungsberatung GmbH & Co. KG in 1997 as a Managing Partner, he worked at Hoechst Brazil followed by Citicorp in New York and then Frankfurt in 1987. Harald Rönn moved in 1991 to 3i Frankfurt as a Manager. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University Getulio Vargas in Brazil and is fluent in German, English and Portuguese. He was born in 1960 and is a German citizen.
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Dr. Geoffrey Scott, Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Geoffrey Scott has been a Member of the Board of Directors and CEO of Uster Technologies Ltd since 2003 (elected until 2010). He was Chief Executive Officer of the Zellweger Uster Division of Zellweger Luwa, Uster, Switzerland, from 1999 to 2003. Prior to that, he held Senior Management positions at Kevex Instruments, Fisons plc (Scientific Instruments Division) and Beckman Instruments. He has broad experience of strategy and business development, sales, marketing and after-sales, product development and general management. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of Maillefer SA. Geoffrey Scott earned a BSc Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool, and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Nottingham. He was born in 1954 and is a British citizen.
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Max-Ulrich Zellweger, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Max-Ulrich Zellweger has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Uster Technologies Ltd since 2003 and is elected until 2010. Between 1987 and 1992 he was Area Manager Asia Pacific of Schindler Elevators Co. and in this function responsible for the subsidiaries and joint ventures of Schindler in China, Japan, India, Hong Kong and other Asian countries. He is now Managing Partner of Pacific Consult Ltd, a Zurich and Shanghai based business consultant specialized on business development in Asia, established in 1992 by Max-Ulrich Zellweger with some partners. He frequently lectures on Asia-related topics at universities and Executive MBA courses. Furthermore he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fr. Sauter Holding AG and a Member of the Board of Directors of Fr. Sauter AG, Bartec GmbH (Germany) and Pacific Consult Ltd. Max-Ulrich Zellweger holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering of the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He was born in 1941 and is a Swiss citizen.
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