Board of Directors

Emanuele Centonze
Dr. oec. HSG, Chairman

Emanuele graduated in economics at the University of St.Gallen where he earned his Ph.D. During this period he worked at the St. Gall Centre of Future Research. He attended the Senior Management Program at Harvard Business School. After several years at Von Roll as Assistant to the Board he became Export Director at Bizerba Werke in Germany. He then worked for Lonza/Alusuisse. In 1986 he joined ECSA growing the sector of raw materials and leading the expansion. In the period from 1986 to 1994 Dr. Centonze also worked as a consultant for international assignments together with the SCG St. Gallen Consulting Group.He is now owner and CEO of the Emanuele Centonze S.A., the largest Swiss-owned chemical distributor.

  

 

H. Georg Hahnloser
lic.oec.publ., MBA

Georg studied economics at the University of Zurich and earned his MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau. He started his career as controller at the Swiss company Zellweger/Uster, an electronic device manufacturer. Afterwards he served for many years at the Swiss industrial conglomerate Von Roll as CFO where he was distinguished for his M&A and restructuring activities. He continued working as an independent consultant for some of the finest Swiss companies. Today he serves on several boards and is Chairman of the international boarding school Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz as well as Chairman of Heiq Materials. 


 
Carlo Centonze
Dipl. Ing. ETH., EMBA

Carlo studied Biology and Forest Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. He earned his Executive MBA at the University of St.Gallen. He started his professional career as co-founder of the ETH Spin-off Myclimate, today one of the world's leading providers of carbon offsetting measures.He founded together with partners the start up company Heiq Materials for antimicrobial silver applications applied in many different products in as various applications as textiles, medical devices, cosmetics, plastics and coatings.

Eugenie Centonze
Dr. oec. HSG

Eugenie Centonze holds a MBA and PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (HSG).
She began her career at the St. Gall Centre of Future Research and the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Health. She joined Nanno de Vries & Partners AG, Zürich in 1989 as a Senior Executive Search Consultant.
Since 1995 she has been a Regional Partner with the Amrop Hever Global Executive Search Switzerland.
Her areas of expertise are international assignments in the Life Science and Healthcare Sector.