Peter Voser

Peter Voser (2009)

Peter Robert Voser (born August 29, 1958 in Baden ) is a Swiss manager . He is Chairman of the Board of Directors and temporarily also Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the ABB Group from April 17, 2019 until the end of February 2020 . Prior to that, Voser was CEO of the oil and natural gas group Royal Dutch Shell .

Life

Voser grew up in Neuenhof and Würenlos in the canton of Aargau and attended school in Baden. After a commercial apprenticeship , he graduated from the HWV Zurich, the predecessor school of the School of Management and Law . Between 1982 and 2002 he held various positions at Royal Dutch Shell. From 2002 to 2004, Voser was Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). In this function he was heavily involved in the turnaround of ABB, which was ailing at the time. From 2004 Voser was Chief Financial Officer of Royal Dutch Shell. On July 1, 2009, he succeeded Jeroen van der Veer as CEO at Royal Dutch Shell in The Haguefrom. As of January 1, 2014, he stepped down as CEO of Royal Dutch Shell because he wanted more time for his family and for himself in his private life. He returned to Switzerland and stayed with Shell Switzerland until the end of March 2014. He was succeeded as CEO by Ben van Beurden . On April 30, 2015, he was elected Chairman of the Board of ABB, succeeding Hubertus von Grünberg .

Voser is a member of the Board of Directors of Roche Holding (Switzerland), IBM Corporation (USA) and Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (Singapore) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Catalyst Inc. (USA). From 2005 to 2010, Voser was a member of the UBS Board of Directors . He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies , and on September 3, 2013 he succeeded Josef Ackermann in the role of President of the Board of Trustees.

With an annual salary of almost 15 million euros, he was, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the highest-earning CEO in Europe in 2009.

Voser is married and has two daughters and a son. He lives in Widen in Aargau .

Award

In 2011 the Sultan of Brunei awarded Voser the title of “Dato Seri Laila Jasa”, which is roughly comparable to the “Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” and expresses gratitude for the 90-year partnership between Brunei and Shell .

literature

Peter Voser in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Peter Voser - collection of images, videos and audio files

Peter R. Voser on the ABB website (English, PDF file).
Information about Peter Voser on the shell page. ( Memento of November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
For me, no session lasts longer than an hour ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Robert Voser. In: Moneyhouse , accessed September 14, 2015.
↑ Siemens competitor: With the departure of Ulrich Spiesshofer, a power struggle ends at ABB. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b career as ^a dishwasher. In: Der Sonntag of December 1, 2011, p. 12.
↑ zhaw.ch (PDF file, 506 kB; p. 4.) ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Birgit Voigt: Roches Kronprinz cancels. ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: NZZ am Sonntag of May 5, 2013
^ Former Chief Executive Officer, Peter Voser: remuneration disclosure. In: Shell of January 2, 2014.
↑ Brian Swint: At the helm of Shell, Ben Van Beurden follows Peter Voser. In: welt.de of July 9, 2013.
↑ Peter Voser is the new ABB President. In: Handelszeitung .ch of April 30, 2015.
↑ Sergio Marchionne and Peter Voser will not be re-elected to the Board of Directors of UBS AG. In: UBS AG of September 29, 2009.
↑ International Students' Committee : Changes in the Board of Trustees , accessed May 25, 2012 (no longer available online)
^ Board of Trustees ( Memento of May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 15, 2014.
^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Manager salaries .
↑ Dirk Schütz : Shell CEO Peter Voser: "I want to be with the people." Interview in: Bilanz 3/2012 from February 19, 2012.
↑ Marc Kowalsky: Power Network Peter Voser: The silent star. In: Balance from April 13, 2015.
↑ Peter R. Voser on the ABB website (English, PDF file), accessed on May 6, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Voser, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Voser, Peter Robert (full name); Voser, Peter R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss manager
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baden , Switzerland

[1] Peter Robert Voser. In: Moneyhouse , accessed September 14, 2015.

[2] Siemens competitor: With the departure of Ulrich Spiesshofer, a power struggle ends at ABB. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .

[sonntag-3] reer as ^a dishwasher. In: Der Sonntag of December 1, 2011, p. 12.

[4] zhaw.ch (PDF file, 506 kB; p. 4.) ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[nzzas-5] Birgit Voigt: Roches Kronprinz cancels. ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: NZZ am Sonntag of May 5, 2013

[2jan2014-6] Former Chief Executive Officer, Peter Voser: remuneration disclosure. In: Shell of January 2, 2014.

[7] Brian Swint: At the helm of Shell, Ben Van Beurden follows Peter Voser. In: welt.de of July 9, 2013.

[8] Peter Voser is the new ABB President. In: Handelszeitung .ch of April 30, 2015.

[9] Sergio Marchionne and Peter Voser will not be re-elected to the Board of Directors of UBS AG. In: UBS AG of September 29, 2009.

[10] International Students' Committee : Changes in the Board of Trustees , accessed May 25, 2012 (no longer available online)

[11] Board of Trustees ( Memento of May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 15, 2014.

[12] Süddeutsche Zeitung: Manager salaries .

[bilanz-13] Dirk Schütz : Shell CEO Peter Voser: "I want to be with the people." Interview in: Bilanz 3/2012 from February 19, 2012.

[14] Marc Kowalsky: Power Network Peter Voser: The silent star. In: Balance from April 13, 2015.

[15] Peter R. Voser on the ABB website (English, PDF file), accessed on May 6, 2017.