Stefan Scheiber
Chair of Switzerland
Stefan Scheiber has been CEO of Bühler since July 1, 2016, and became Member of the Board of Directors on August 28, 2020. He graduated in Business Administration from the University of Applied Science in St.Gallen and later continued his education at the Institute IMD Lausanne and the Harvard Business School.
In 1986, he started as a management trainee at Bühler and has spent more than 30 years with Bühler in different functions. After a first international assignment in Nairobi, Kenya, he became Commercial Manager and interim Sales & Service Manager at Bühler South Africa. In 1999, he took charge of the Brewing/Malting and Rice business units, and thereafter, assumed the overall responsibility for Bühler in Germany. From mid-2005, he headed the Sales & Services division and became Member of the Executive Board.
In 2009, he was assigned Division Manager of the Engineered Products Division which he reorganized into the Food Processing and the Advanced Material divisions. In 2014, he was charged with the re-organization and integration of the Food Processing and the Grain Processing divisions, creating the Grains & Food business, which he led until 2016.
Stefan Scheiber is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Kistler Group and Bucher Industries AG, and a Member of the Executive Committee of Swissmem.