Lukas Schaerer

Lukas Schaerer, born in 1975, is experienced in leading, designing, building, transforming and restructuring operations with broad international expertise in strategy execution, business process excellence, digitalization and new technology as well as a strong background in procurement and business shared services.

Before joining Chain IQ he has held several senior leadership position with LafargeHolcim. Most recently he was CEO of the European Business Service Center in Eastern Europe with responsibility to build, optimize, digitalize and automatize financial-, sales- and procurement services for Europe. He was also Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) in Central Europe establishing a strong procurement function as well as Marketing Manager in Europe and Managing Director in Russia.

Before joining LafargeHolcim Lukas was a partner of a management consulting firm focusing on digital business. Lukas holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and a post graduate degree in Marking and Management from the University of Lucerne. Additionally he completed executive management programs at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Ivey Business School and IMD Business School.

He is married and has two children.