CEO of the Year
Large Companies: Switzerland – 2019
Published: June 30, 2019
Below are all the winners in the competition Large Companies, Switzerland, 2019. 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 |
Bracken Darrell (Logitech) | |
Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique (Barry Callebaut) | ||
Christian Buhl (Geberit) | ||
Roland Fischer (OC Oerlikon) | ||
Dr. Dieter Weisskopf (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | |
Dr. Severin Schwan (Roche) | ||
Dr. Jacques Sanche (Bucher) | ||
Thomas Oetterli (Schindler) | ||
Paul Schuler (Sika) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Urs Riedener (Emmi) | |
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (EMS-Chemie) | ||
Grégoire Poux-Guillaume (Sulzer) | ||
Prof. Gustavo Möller-Hergt (ALSO) | ||
Frankie Ng (SGS) | ||
Dr. Ulf Mark Schneider (Nestlé) |
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 |
Roland Fischer (OC Oerlikon) | |
Dr. Jacques Sanche (Bucher) | ||
Dr. Detlef Trefzger (Kuehne + Nagel) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Grégoire Poux-Guillaume (Sulzer) | |
Stefan Karlen (Panalpina) | ||
Dr. Severin Schwan (Roche) | ||
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Bracken Darrell (Logitech) | ||
Dr. Dieter Weisskopf (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Frankie Ng (SGS) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (EMS-Chemie) | |
Christian Buhl (Geberit) | ||
Urs Riedener (Emmi) | ||
Paul Schuler (Sika) | ||
Nick Hayek (Swatch) | ||
Thomas Oetterli (Schindler) |
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 |
Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique (Barry Callebaut) | |
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (EMS-Chemie) | ||
Roland Fischer (OC Oerlikon) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Christian Buhl (Geberit) | |
Bracken Darrell (Logitech) | ||
Dr. Dieter Weisskopf (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Dr. Jacques Sanche (Bucher) | ||
Riet Cadonau (dormakaba) | ||
Thomas Oetterli (Schindler) | ||
Dr. Severin Schwan (Roche) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | |
Nick Hayek (Swatch) | ||
Grégoire Poux-Guillaume (Sulzer) | ||
Dr. Ulf Mark Schneider (Nestlé) | ||
Urs Riedener (Emmi) |
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 |
Bracken Darrell (Logitech) | |
Dr. Suzanne Thoma (BKW) | ||
Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique (Barry Callebaut) | ||
Silver Top 10 |
Jasmin Staiblin (Alpiq) | |
Dr. Dieter Weisskopf (Lindt & Sprüngli) | ||
Paul Schuler (Sika) | ||
Jean-Claude Clémençon (Galenica) | ||
Christian Buhl (Geberit) | ||
Prof. Gustavo Möller-Hergt (ALSO) | ||
Gilles Andrier (Givaudan) | ||
Bronze Outperformer |
Dr. Severin Schwan (Roche) | |
Dr. Ulf Mark Schneider (Nestlé) | ||
Urs Riedener (Emmi) | ||
Urs Schaeppi (Swisscom) | ||
Thomas Oetterli (Schindler) | ||
Stefan Karlen (Panalpina) |
In the Multi-year rankings, you can see cumulative performance for each CEO over the years.
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