CEO of the Year
Large Companies: Switzerland – 2015
Published: August 26, 2015
Below are all the winners in the competition Large Companies, Switzerland, 2015. Publicly-listed companies are included in this competition when they meet this criterion:
Criteria to participate: Companies with revenues above $2 bn.
All Winners in the Market
The gold winners are the top three on the list. These CEOs receive an Obermatt gold pin – an 18-karat gold pin that is personally presented to the winners in recognition of their outstanding performance. The next best CEOs up to 10th place are the silver winners. The bronze winners are all those CEOs that outperformed the market with a ranking over 50.
Combined Performance
These CEOs showed the best overall performance in growth, operating efficiency and investment performance.
Pin | CEO | Rank |
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Gold Podium |
Jan Jenisch (Holcim) | |
Dr. Jean-Paul Clozel (Actelion) | ||
Albert M. Baehny (Geberit) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Ernst Tanner (Lindt & Sprüngli) | |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | ||
Jürgen B. Steinemann (Barry Callebaut) | ||
Owen Killian (Aryzta) | ||
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Julián Díaz González (Avolta) | ||
Urs Schaeppi (Swisscom) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler (Sonova) | |
Richard Lepeu (Richemont) | ||
Bernard Fornas (Richemont) | ||
Richard Ridinger (Lonza) |
In the Multi-year rankings, you can see cumulative performance for each CEO over the years.
Growth Performance
These CEOs drove the highest growth among their peers.
Pin | CEO | Rank |
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Gold Podium |
Jan Jenisch (Holcim) | |
Julián Díaz González (Avolta) | ||
Jürgen B. Steinemann (Barry Callebaut) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler (Sonova) | |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | ||
Ernst Tanner (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Dr. Jean-Paul Clozel (Actelion) | ||
Albert M. Baehny (Geberit) | ||
Silvio Napoli (Schindler) | ||
Urs Schaeppi (Swisscom) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Owen Killian (Aryzta) | |
Richard Lepeu (Richemont) | ||
Bernard Fornas (Richemont) | ||
Philip Mosimann (Bucher) | ||
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Nick Hayek (Swatch) |
In the Multi-year rankings, you can see cumulative performance for each CEO over the years.
Operating Performance
These CEOs managed their companies most efficiently and delivered the strongest profit growth compared with their peers.
Pin | CEO | Rank |
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Gold Podium |
Jan Jenisch (Holcim) | |
Ernst Tanner (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Albert M. Baehny (Geberit) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Dr. Jean-Paul Clozel (Actelion) | |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | ||
Owen Killian (Aryzta) | ||
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Kurt Bobst (Repower) | ||
Steven L. Newman (Transocean) | ||
Brice Koch (OC Oerlikon) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Richard Lepeu (Richemont) | |
Bernard Fornas (Richemont) | ||
Julián Díaz González (Avolta) | ||
Urs Schaeppi (Swisscom) | ||
Bracken Darrell (Logitech) | ||
Dr. Severin Schwan (Roche) | ||
Dr. Bernard J. Duroc-Danner (Weatherford) | ||
Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler (Sonova) | ||
Ivan Glasenberg (Glencore) | ||
Jürgen B. Steinemann (Barry Callebaut) | ||
Hariolf Kottmann (Clariant) |
In the Multi-year rankings, you can see cumulative performance for each CEO over the years.
Investment Performance
These CEOs pursued strategies and made investments which attracted investors the most. As such, they achieved the highest Total Shareholder Returns (TSR) amongst their peers.
Pin | CEO | Rank |
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Gold Podium |
Dr. Jean-Paul Clozel (Actelion) | |
Albert M. Baehny (Geberit) | ||
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Jürgen B. Steinemann (Barry Callebaut) | |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | ||
Owen Killian (Aryzta) | ||
Ernst Tanner (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Joseph Jimenez (Novartis) | ||
Martin Hirzel (Autoneum) | ||
Andrew Gibson (gategroup) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Richard Ridinger (Lonza) | |
Urs Schaeppi (Swisscom) | ||
Silvio Napoli (Schindler) | ||
Dr. Detlef Trefzger (Kuehne + Nagel) | ||
Paul Bulcke (Nestlé) | ||
Bernard Fontana (Holcim) | ||
Baron Patrick de Maeseneire (Adecco) | ||
Ulrich Spiesshofer (ABB) | ||
Dr. Bernard J. Duroc-Danner (Weatherford) | ||
Hariolf Kottmann (Clariant) | ||
Jan Jenisch (Holcim) |
In the Multi-year rankings, you can see cumulative performance for each CEO over the years.
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