Calvin Grieder is currently the Chairman of Givaudan SA, Chairman of AWK Group and the Chairman of Société General de Surveillance (SGS) SA. In addition, he is Chairman and Administrative President of the international engineering group Bühler AG.
Calvin has held various Executive positions at Swiss and German companies active in the areas of control technology, automation and system engineering. In these roles, he was primarily responsible for successfully establishing and expanding international business.
In 2001, Calvin moved from Swisscom, where he had served as Head of the mobile and internet business, to Bühler Group, where he acted as CEO for 15 years. In February 2014, he was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bühler Group and appointed to the Board of Directors of Givaudan, becoming Chairman of the Board in 2017. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Société General de Surveillance (SGS) since 2019 and was elected as Chairman in 2020.
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