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Ton Büchner
Ton Büchner (born in 1965, Dutch and Swiss Nationality) has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swiss real estate group Swiss Prime Site AG and the Swiss industrial group Burckhardt Compression Holding AG since 2020. Since 2016, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis and (since 2014) a member of the Shareholder Committee of Voith GmbH in Germany.

Life and career
Büchner studied Civil Engineering at the Delft University of Technology and graduated in 1988 with a Master Degree in Engineering. He started his career as construction engineer in the area of offshore construction at Allseas Engineering in the Netherlands and continued his career as a project manager bei R.J. Brown and Associates, Singapore, as well as with John Brown Engineers and Constructors (until 1992).

After completing his MBA (1993) at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, he joined the Swiss industrial company Sulzer, in 1994, as a Strategic Development Manager. He became the Chief Representative for Sulzer in China from late 1995 to 1998 and took on various divisional leadership positions at Sulzer (President Sulzer Turbomachinery Services, President Sulzer Pumps) before becoming the Chief Executive Officer of Sulzer AG in February 2007, a position he occupied until October 2011.

From early 2012 until late 2017, he was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Executive Board of AkzoNobel NV in the Netherlands.

Corporate boards

 * Swiss Prime Site AG, Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors (since 2020)
 * Burckhardt Compression AG, Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors (since 2020)
 * Novartis, Non-Executive Independent Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2016)
 * Voith GmbH, Independent Member of the Shareholders Committee (since 2014)

Non-profit organizations

 * Executive Advisory Board Member, WORLD.MINDS
 * ERT Entrepreneurs AG (Entrepreneurs Roundtable), Advisory Board Member Netherlands

Personal life
Büchner is married.

Weblinks

 * Ton Büchner on sps.swiss
 * Ton Büchner on novartis.com
 * Ton Büchner on burckhardtcompression.com