Ernst Tanner

Mr. Tanner was elected CEO and Vice Chairman by the Board of Directors in 1993. In 1994, he be-came Chairman of the Board. He is a member of the Corporate Sustainability Committee. He completed a commercial education and then attended business school in London and at Harvard. Before joining Lindt & Sprüngli, Mr. Tanner held top management positions for more than 25 years with the Johnson & Johnson Group in Europe and in the USA, last as Company Group Chairman Europe. Mr. Tanner has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Swatch Group since 1995, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2011, as well as member of the Compensation Committee since 2002 and Chairman of this Committee since May 2014. He also has a seat on the Advisory Boards of both the Ger-man Krombacher Brauerei GmbH & Co. KG and the Austrian SIGNA Group. As of September 30, 2016, Mr. Tanner resigned as CEO of the Lindt & Sprüngli Group and is since then Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.