Board of Directors

Henning Boysen has been a member of Kuoni’s Board of Directors since 2003. In 2006, the Board elected Mr. Boysen, a Dane, to be its chairman. After graduating with a Masters in Economics, Henning Boysen began his career as a management consultant at Booz, Allan & Hamilton. In 1975 he joined SAS Service Partner as a project manager before going on to the posts of Chief Financial Officer and then Executive Vice-President Catering. After stints as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Saudia Catering and President of Aero-Chef A/S, he served as President and CEO of Gate Gourmet International from 1996 to 2004, and as Deputy Chairman from 2004 to 2005. During this period as President and CEO, Gate Gourmet grew from a medium sized European company to become a leading global player.

Heinz Karrer, who is a Swiss national, has been CEO of Axpo Holding AG, Switzerland’s leading energy company, since 2002. After studying economics at St. Gallen University (HSG), he began his career in 1985 when he was appointed General Manager of the Association of Swiss Manufacturers, Suppliers and Agents for Sports Goods. He went on to serve as Managing Director of Intersport Schweiz AG from 1987 to 1992 and as CEO of Intersport Holding AG from 1992 to 1995. He then moved to the Ringier publishing house where he remained until 1997, becoming CEO of Ringier Switzerland and a member of Ringier Ltd.’s Group Executive Management. From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of Swisscom’s Group Executive Management and head of the group’s Marketing & Sales Division. He has served on Kuoni’s Board of Directors since 2007. Since 2012 he is Vice-Chairman of the Board.

Jay Lee, a Korean citizen, has worked for eBay, the world’s biggest online marketplace, since 2002. He is currently in charge of eBay’s Asia Pacific Region Portfolio as Managing Director and Corporate Senior Vice President. Previously, Jay Lee was the CEO of eBay’s Korean Internet Auction Company from 2002 to 2004. From 2000 to 2002 he was COO and then CEO of NASDAQ-listed multimedia company Korea Thrunet. He began his career in 1992 with Boston Consulting Group, where he was elected a partner since 1998. Jay Lee lives in Singapore and Seoul, South Korea. He holds an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School, Boston ,USA and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Relations from Brown University, Providence, USA.

John Lindquist, a US and UK citizen, is resident in London. He gained a degree in economics from Princeton University and MBA from Harvard University and then joined The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a consultant. He was subsequently elected a Partner and later a Senior Partner and Managing Director, where he served on the global leadership team of the travel and tourism practice. He is currently a Senior Adviser with BCG, advising on strategy for clients in airlines, hotels, and government tourism bodies on a global basis. He joined Kuoni’s Board of Directors in 2007. He is a Board Director of VisitBritain, the UK government tourism promotion agency.

58 year-old Dutchman Adriaan Nühn sits on the boards of several international consumer goods companies. Among his other roles, since 2002 he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Macintosh Retail Group, a Dutch company specializing in the distribution of non-food goods and services. Since 2009 he has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dutch food wholesaler Sligro Food Group. His most recent operational role was as CEO of consumer goods company Sara Lee International from 2003 to 2008. Adriaan Nühn lives in Bussum / Netherlands. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administra-tion from Hogere Economische School, Eindhoven / Netherlands and an MBA from the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington / USA.

Kuoni’s Board of Directors has benefited from the great expertise and experience of Swiss business administration graduate David Schnell since 2002. Between 1985 and 1997 he worked at ELCO Looser Holding AG, initially as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Member of the Executive Board, and later as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Member of the Board of Directors. In 1997 David Schnell moved to become CFO and Member of the Executive Board of telecommunications company Swisscom AG in Bern, where he stayed until 2002. Since 2002 David Schnell has been an independent business consultant and a Member of the Board of Directors of various companies.

Annette Schömmel – Swiss citizen – is a successful entrepreneur. She studied Economics at Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Film at University of Southern California and received a Masters Degree in Marketing and Communication from University of the Arts, Berlin. She is a Stanford Business School Graduate. After working in various management positions in the creative industry, she founded arthesia – an applied think-tank based in Zug and Los Angeles – in 1994. Annette Schömmel has built a track record advising the leadership of global companies and brands on strategy, transformation and change programmes as well as long term positioning and re-positioning in various industries. She has built the arthesia cities business and currently advises cities around the world on strategy. She joined the Kuoni board in 2004.

Raymond D. Webster, who is a citizen of New Zealand and resident in the United Kingdom, joined Kuoni’s Board of Directors in 2006. He worked for easyJet airline plc. from 1996 to 2005 – from 2000 as Chief Executive Officer. Before that he was with Air New Zealand in various functions, the last one being General Manager, Strategic Planning. He studied engineering at Canterbury University in New Zealand and obtained an MSc in Air Transport Engineering from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the UK, as well as a Master of Business Management from Stanford Business School in the USA.