Jochen Schmitz

Jochen Schmitz, Ph.D., has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Siemens Healthineers since December 2017. As of March 2018, the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as Siemens Healthineers AG (SHL). Three months after its stock market debut, Siemens Healthineers entered the technology index TecDAX and in September that year Deutsche Börse also included the company in the mid-cap index MDAX.

Jochen Schmitz joined Siemens in 1996. He also holds a Ph.D. in the same field. After various positions with increasing responsibility in Corporate Finance in Germany he joined Siemens Healthcare in 2004, holding several executive finance positions in the Healthcare business in the USA and Germany. Among others he was CFO of the Diagnostics Division in USA and CFO of the Imaging & Therapy Systems Division in Germany until 2011. Afterwards, he had served for seven years as Corporate Vice President Controller of Siemens AG until he finally came back to Siemens Healthineers.

Jochen Schmitz completed his studies in Business Administration and Economics at the University of Augsburg. He was born in Moenchengladbach, Germany, in 1966.