CEO of the Year Obermatt Pin


Mid-sized Companies: Switzerland – 2017

Published: July 24, 2017

Below are all the winners in the competition Mid-sized Companies, Switzerland, 2017. Publicly-listed companies are included in this competition when they meet this criterion:

Criteria to participate: Companies with revenues between 0.1 and $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.

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.

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.

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
Gold
Podium
Dr. Thomas Eisenring (Hochdorf)
98
Dr. Thomas Früh (Bachem)
96
Jean-Pascal Bobst (Bobst)
90
Pierre-Alain Urech (Romande Energie)
90
Marco Gadola (Straumann)
90
Silver
Top 10
Paul Zumbühl (Interroll)
89
René Rothen (Adval Tech)
87
Cyrill Schneuwly (Intershop)
86
Alexander von Witzleben (Arbonia)
86
David Arnott (Temenos Group)
85
Bronze
Outperformer
Werner Schmidli (Schlatter)
83
Michi Frank (Goldbach Group)
81
Rudolf Hadorn (Gurit)
80
Dr. Heinz O. Baumgartner (Schweiter Technologies)
80
David Dean (Bossard)
79
Claus Martini (IVF Hartmann)
79
Dr. Christoph Caviezel (Mobimo)
77
Stephan Widrig (Flughafen Zürich)
77
Simon Michel (Ypsomed)
76
Reiner Pichler (Calida)
76
Dr. Jürg Werner (Metall Zug)
74
Walter Börsch (Starrag)
74
Martin Buyle (Orell Füssli)
72
Lars van der Haegen (Belimo)
72
Markus Ehrle (APG|SGA)
70
Daniel Lutz (ORIOR)
69
Roger Herzog (Allreal)
69
Martin Schaufelberger (Coltene)
68
Matijas Meyer (Komax)
68
Dr. Peter Schildknecht (CPH Chemie + Papier)
67
Jens Breu (SFS)
67
Lukas Winkler (Inficon)
65
Dr. Rudolf Hanko (Siegfried)
64
Michael Willome (Bystronic)
64
Rene Kamm (MCH Group)
63
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (EMS-Chemie)
62
Marco Syfrig (Burkhalter)
60
André Kudelski (Kudelski)
58
François Gabella (LEM)
57
Vittorio Rossi (Carlo Gavazzi)
55
Claude R. Cornaz (Vetropack)
55
Markus Bernhard (mobilezone)
55
René Zahnd (Swiss Prime Site)
55
Thomas Bodenmann (Hügli)
52
Bruno Cathomen (Mikron)
51
Dr. Michael Hauser (Tornos)
50
Stephan Bauer (Forbo)
50

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In the Multi-year rankings, you can see cumulative performance for each CEO over the years.


Multi-Year Winners in Switzerland:

Large Companies
Mid-sized Companies
Financial Institutions