Barbara Kux

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Barbara Kux (born February 26, 1954 in Zurich ) is a Swiss manager . She is a member of the supervisory board and a. at Total and Henkel . In November 2008, she became the first woman in Siemens' 161-year history to join the Executive Board, to which she was a member for five years. This made her the second woman on the board of a DAX company.

Career

Kux completed an MBA at INSEAD . She was a scholarship holder of AFS Intercultural Encounters . She started at Nestlé Germany in 1978 , where she was promoted to Marketing Manager. From 1984 she worked at McKinsey in Düsseldorf as a management consultant . In 1989 she moved to ABB in Zurich, where she was Vice President for Eastern Europe and headed the Power Ventures division. In 1993 she returned to Nestlé as Vice President for Central and Eastern Europe and Country Manager for Poland. In 1999 she worked for Ford in Vienna and Cologne as Executive Director , before she became Head of Purchasing at Philips for the first time in 2003 and was also responsible for sustainability from 2005. She was appointed to the Siemens Board of Management in November 2008 with the same responsibilities.

At Siemens, Kux was in charge of the newly created Supply Chain Management department with a global purchasing volume of initially 42 billion euros. It reduced the number of suppliers, bundled the purchasing volume and thus improved the group result by a higher single-digit billion euro amount. During Kux's time as Chief Sustainability Officer , the company received the German Sustainability Award for future strategies in 2011 and has been recognized several times by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index as the most sustainable company in the world across seven industrial sectors.

After her five-year term in office, Kux left Siemens in November 2013 to take on supervisory functions at other companies. Kux has been a member of the Supervisory Board at Total since May 2011 , at Henkel and Firmenich since July 2013, and at Umicore since January 2014 . From April 2015 to May 2019 she was also a member of Engie's Board of Directors .

Kux was named Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1995 . She also ranked fourth on Fortune's international list of 50 most influential business leaders from 2010 to 2012 .

She is a member of the INSEAD Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Siemens appoints first woman to the board , Spiegel Online . November 12, 2008.
  2. ^ Biography Barbara Kux ( Memento from May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 40 kB), Siemens AG.
  3. ↑ Purchasing based on success to date, central lever for Siemens 2014 , Siemens AG, press release of November 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ Awards and public recognition ( memento of November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Siemens AG, Internet presence, keyword sustainability.
  5. ^ Report of the Supervisory Board Siemens Annual Report 2013.
  6. ↑ Interview: Barbara Kux about Siemens' exit from solar power Rheinische Post Online. December 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ Form 20-F 2013: Composition of the Board of Directors, Barbara Kux ( Memento from June 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Total Annual Report 2013, page 95 (PDF; 1.2 MB).
  8. ^ "Barbara Kux becomes a member of the supervisory board at Henkel" ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Henkel & Co. KGaA, press release from July 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Barbara Kux rejoins Firmenich's board" , Perfumer & Flavorist. July 29, 2013.
  10. ↑ 3.3 Shareholders' meetings 2013 ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Umicore Annual Report 2013, page 151 (PDF; 4.4 MB).
  11. ↑ GDF SUEZ SA General Shareholders' Meeting April 28, 2015 Energy Solutions. April 28, 2015.
  12. ↑ "50 Most Powerful Women in Business, Global" , Fortune. October 8, 2012. Quoted from CNNMoney website.
  13. ↑ Advisory Council ( Memento from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), INSEAD.
  14. ^ Board of Trustees , Max Schmidheiny Foundation. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kux, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich