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Group Executive Committee

Latest update: August 04, 2009

The Group Executive Committee has three members: the heads of the two divisions and the CFO:

Name
Nationality
Position
Year of birth
With Rieter since
Member of the Executive Committee since
Current function since


Peter Gnägi
CH
Head of the Textile Systems Division
1954
1990
2002
2002
Urs Leinhäuser
CH
Chief Financial Officer and Head Corporate Center
1959
2003
2003
2004
Wolfgang Drees
DE
Head of the Automotive Systems Division
1953
2007
2008
2008

Peter Gnägi (1954)

 CV (English/PDF/30.4 KB)

  • Head of the Textile Systems Division.
  • Swiss national.
  • Dipl. Masch. Ing. ETH Zurich.
  • From 1979 to 1982 Alusuisse AG, Zurich; from 1982 to 1990 Mettler Instrumente AG, Stäfa; most recently as head Business Group Betriebsmittel; with Rieter since 1990, head of the Spun Yarn Systems Business Group from 1998 to 2002, in his present function since 2002.
  • Member of the Executive Committee, Swissmem.

Urs Leinhäuser (1959)

 CV (English/PDF/30.3 KB)

  • Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Head of the Corporate Center.
  • Swiss national.
  • Dipl. Betriebsökonom HWV.
  • From 1995 to 1999 Georg Fischer AG, most recently as head of Finance and Controlling, Division Piping Systems; from 1999 to 2003 Chief Financial Offi cer of Mövenpick Holding; with Rieter since April 2003 as head of Group Controlling and member of the Group Executive Committee, in his present function since January 2004.
  • Member of the Board, Burckhardt Compression Holding AG, Winterthur.

Wolfgang Drees  (1953)

 CV (English/PDF/29.8 KB)

  • Head of the Automotive Systems Division.
  • German national.
  • Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Hanover.
  • From 1977 to 2005 Bosch Group in Germany, Switzerland and USA; since 2002 member of the Executive Committee of Robert Bosch GmbH, in charge of chassis systems, electrical tools, thermal engineering
    and metals technology; with Rieter since January 2007 as head of Business Group Europe of Rieter Automotive Systems and deputy head of the division, in his present function since January 1, 2008.
  • Member of the Board, Huber Packaging Group, Öhringen, Germany.

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