Ernst Tanner (CH)

Mr. Tanner was elected CEO and Vice-Chair by the Board of Directors in 1993. In 1994, he became Chair of the Board. He is a member of the 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 over 25 years with the Johnson & Johnson Group in Europe and the USA, latterly 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, a member of the Compensation Committee since 2002, and Chairman of this committee since May 2014. He also sits on the Advisory Boards of the German Krombacher Brauerei GmbH & Co. KG. At the end of September 2016, Mr. Tanner resigned as CEO of the Lindt & Sprüngli Group, and since then has been Executive Chair of the Board of Directors.