1965, Swiss
Chairman and non-executive member
Term of office expires at 2022 AGM

Business economist, NKS (Aarau, Baden)

Urs Jordi has more than 25 years of experience in various national and international food companies at management and board level. He held various management positions within the Hiestand and ARYZTA Group, most recently as CEO of the listed Hiestand Holding AG (from 2008 within ARYZTA AG), and from 2010 to 2013 as CEO ARYZTA Food Europe & Asia Pacific. Since 2014, Urs Jordi has been involved in various own investments. For this purpose, he serves on the board of Schweizer Zucker AG. Urs Jordi is a trained baker and confectioner. Urs became a member and Chair of the ARYZTA Board in September 2020.

1964, Dual Irish & Australian
Non-executive member
Term of office expires at 2022 AGM
BA in languages and psychology and a higher diploma in education from University College Cork, as well as a MBA from University College Dublin’s Smurfit Graduate School of Business 

Gordon Hardie is an experienced Board member with Governance experience in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific in both public and private environments. He has undertaken board member education and training including completion of the Coporate Governance Program at Harvard Business School. Most recently, he was President of Bunge Food & Ingredients, Bunge Ltd (BG:NYSE), a global agri-food business from 2011 until 2019. Prior to Bunge Ltd, Mr. Hardie served as Managing Director of Goodman Fielder Bakeries Australia / New Zealand (GFF:ASX). Since 2015, Mr. Hardie serves as a Non-Executive Director at Owens-Glass Inc. (OI:NYSE), the global leader in glass packaging for the food and beverage industries and is Chair of its Risk Oversight Committee. He was previously a Non Executive Director of Greencore Plc (GNC:LSE) He previously served as Chairman of Bunge Loders Croklaan B.V (Holland), Chairman of Walter Rau Neusser AG (Germany), Non-Executive Director of Z.T Kruswizca (Poland), and Non-Executive Director of Foodbank New South Wales (Australia). Mr. Hardie also is a member on the North American Advisory Board of the Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Mr. Hardie serves as a Strategic Advisor to Temasek and to Lodbrok Capital.

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1955, German
Non-executive member
Term of office expires at 2022 AGM

Masterbaker and Business Degree

Heiner Kamps is a successful food entrepreneur with over 40 years of industrial experience. He founded the bakery chain Kamps AG, which he led as CEO until 2002. Since 2003, Heiner Kamps has held shares in various companies. From 2005 to 2018, he and other investors, owned a majority stake in the Nordsee GmbH fast food chain. From 2011 to 2015, he was CEO of the Müller Milch Group and from 2015 to 2018 chairman of its supervisory board. Heiner Kamps founded the charitable foundation Brot gegen Not (Bread against misery), which supports training in the bakery trade in needy regions. He is a trained baker and confectioner. Heiner became a member of the ARYZTA Board in September 2020.

1957, Swiss
Non-executive member
Term of office expires at 2022 AGM
Masters in economics from the University of St. Gallen (lic. oec. HSG) and is a certified public accountant

From 2013 to 2019, Jörg Riboni was CFO of the Emmi Group, Lucerne. Prior to that, he was CFO of the Forbo Group (2005 to 2012). His previous roles include CFO of the Sarna Group, Sarnen; Baar (1997 to 2005) and CFO of Jelmoli, Zurich (1995 to 1997). He is currently Chair or Member of the Board of Directors of various privately-held companies. He joined the ARYZTA AG Board in December, 2020.

1955, Swiss
Non-executive member
Term of office expires at 2022 AGM

Masters in Economics from the University of St. Gallen (lic. oec. HSG).

Hélène Weber-Dubi has over 20 years experience in the food industry with a focus on focus on Finance and Accouting, as well as Management Buy-Out, Mergers and Acquisitions and IPO. From 1999-2015, Ms. Weber-Dubi was CFO of the ORIOR-Group, a major Swiss food com­pany and was a member of the Group Management Board. In 1996, Ms. Weber-Dubi accepted a position as financial controller with Bally. That same year, she was promoted to Managing Director of Bally Switzerland, Bally Italy and Bally Spain with a seat on the international Executive Board. In 1999 when she was put in charge of financial Control of Bally Interna­tional and was primarly tasked with executing the sale of Bally to Texas Pacific Group. From 1982 to 1995 she held various management positions with Unilever in Switzerland and the UK, mostly in auditing and finance. Ms. Weber-Dubi is a member of the Board of Directors of Medela Holding AG in Baar (CH), Medela AG in Baar(CH) and Ospelt Anstalt in Bendern (FL).

1956, Spanish
Non-executive member
Term of office expires at 2022 AGM

Alejandro Legarda Zaragüeta is a highly experienced senior executive with significant management and non-executive director experience within various sectors, including transport, gas and food related industries. From 1994 to 2004 he was managing director of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles S.A. (‘CAF’), a listed group which manufactures railway vehicles and signalling equipment and stayed on as a director of the non-executive board until 2019. His responsibilities were the management of the company’s global business. From 2006 to 2018, Alejandro was an independent director of Viscofan S.A., a listed group and the world leader in the manufacturing of casings for meat products, with commercial presence in over 100 countries around the world. He was independent director for Pescanova and Nueva Pescanova, a multinational fishing, farming and processing group from 2014 to 2017. Amongst the boards he has served on, Alejandro was executive chairman of the board of Nortegas Energıa y Distribución S.A. from 2017 to 2019 and an independent director of Duro Felguera S.A. from 2018 to 2019. Alejandro became a member of the Board in November 2019.