Ulf Schneider

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Ulf Schneider (2019)

Ulf Mark Schneider (born September 9, 1965 in Neuwied ) is a German business manager . He has been the CEO of Nestlé since 2017 .

Life

Schneider attended the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Neuwied , where he skipped the tenth grade. After graduating from high school, he studied and received his doctorate in economics at the University of St. Gallen . He also holds an MBA ( Master of Business Administration ) from Harvard Business School . In 1989 Schneider joined the Duisburg conglomerate Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH , where he held various leading positions until 2001, most recently as Group Finance Director at the British pharmaceutical wholesaler and retailer Gehe UK plc (now McKesson Europe ). On November 1, 2001, Schneider moved to the Management Board of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, the world's leading provider of dialysis products and services, where he was responsible for finance. From May 28, 2003 to June 30, 2016, he was CEO of the parent company Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA . During his tenure, the company's sales have quadrupled, the number of employees more than tripled and profits more than twelve-fold. In addition, Fresenius undertook several major strategic acquisitions under his leadership: in 2005 the takeover of the private hospital chain HELIOS Kliniken ; 2006 the takeover of the US dialysis provider Renal Care Group; 2008 acquisition of the US pharmaceutical company APP Pharmaceuticals; 2011 acquisition of Liberty Dialysis, another major dialysis provider in the US; and in 2014 the takeover of 41 clinics from Rhön Klinikum AG , making HELIOS the largest private hospital operator in Germany.

In December 2012, Handelsblatt named Schneider “Manager of the Year 2012” and in November 2013 Manager Magazin “Manager of the Year 2013”.

On September 1, 2016, he moved to the Board of Directors of Nestlé . On January 1, 2017, Schneider became CEO of Nestlé. He is only the second external candidate (next to financial expert Louis Dapples ) to be made CEO of Nestlé.

Schneider was Chairman of the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School until 2016 and a member of the Board of Directors of the US chemical company DuPont from 2014 to 2017 .

Private

He has an American and a German passport.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Neuwied, accessed on April 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ Who is Ulf Schneider? The best German manager of his generation , Manager Magazin, June 28, 2016, accessed on April 28, 2018
  3. ↑ The curriculum vitae of Ulf M. Schneider on the Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA website. Retrieved March 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Press release from June 26, 2016 on the Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA website. Retrieved September 12, 2016
  5. ↑ Company history on the Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA website. Retrieved November 7, 2014
  6. ↑ “People 2012” on Handelsblatt online. Retrieved March 6, 2013
  7. ↑ "Ulf Schneider is" Manager of the Year "2013" on manager magazin online. Retrieved January 15, 2014
  8. ^ Nestlé Board of Directors and Executive Board , Nestlé Global, June 27, 2016
  9. ↑ Dieter Bachmann: Fresenius CEO Ulf Mark Schneider new CEO: Surprising change at Nestlé top. In: NZZ . June 27, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Fresenius boss will in future steer Nestlé. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
  11. ^ Board of Directors on the DuPont website. Retrieved November 7, 2014
  12. ^ "Ulf Schneider: Manager with a steady hand" ( Memento from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Financial Times Germany from March 20, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Ulf M .; Schneider, Ulf Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager, CEO of Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied , Germany