Executive Committee (EC)

Management approach

Effective 1 July 2023, dormakaba introduced a streamlined Executive Committee setup to amplify the strategic focus on core and customer-centricity. All AS business is combined into one global unit led by the newly introduced role of Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). The new unit includes all AS activities related to sales, services and marketing as well as the product management for Access Hardware Solutions and Access Automation Solutions. The company’s seven key markets markets (North America, Germany, Switzerland, Australia & New Zealand, UK & Ireland, China and India) report directly to the CCO. The new Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) role, also effective as of the start of FY 2023/24, leads all global engineering capabilities and is responsible for dormakaba’s innovation strategy. The Chief Operations Officer (COO) function continues to ensure plant productivity and factory network optimization with lean manufacturing and optimized direct and indirect spend. The President KWO continues to have the entrepreneurial responsibility for the KWS segment, including product development, production, sales, and services. Further, he is responsible for the OEM business of the former Region Asia Pacific. The CFO is responsible for the Group’s financial affairs as well as other Group functions such as Investor Relations. Further global corporate functions such as Strategy, Human Resources, IT, and Legal define and monitor Group-wide standards.

EC dormakaba Group as of 30 June 2024¹

Name/Position	Year of birth	Entry	Gender	Nationality
Till Reuter CEO	1968	2024	m	DE
Christina Johansson CFO	1966	2022	f	CH/SE/NO
Steve Bewick Chief Commercial Officer	1966	2020	m	GB
Magin Guardiola Chief Innovation Officer	1965	2023	m	CH/ES
Stefano Zocca President Key & Wall Solutions and OEM; Chief Operations Officer ad interim	1963	2011	m	IT

1 Details on Jim-Heng Lee, CEO and EC members until 31 December 2023, and on Alex Housten, COO and EC member until 31 March 2024, can be found in the Corporate Governance Report FY 2022/23, EC members (https://report.dormakaba.com/2022_23/en/members-of-the-executive-committee/).

EC members

The table above gives the name, position, year of birth, date of joining the EC, gender, and nationality of each EC member.

During the financial year 2023/24, the following changes within the EC were made:

Till Reuter stepped down as BoD member and was appointed as CEO, effective 1 January 2024 , succeeding Jim-Heng Lee.
Alex Housten, COO and EC member, left dormakaba on 31 March 2024.

As of 1 July 2024, René Peter was appointed as CFO ad interim while Christina Johansson is on sick leave. As of 1 August 2024, Carsten Franke joined dormakaba as COO and member of the EC.

External mandates

The maximum number of mandates that members of the EC are allowed to take on the governing bodies of legal entities outside dormakaba is regulated in §27 of the Articles of Incorporation.

Management contracts

Neither dormakaba Holding AG nor its Group companies have entered into any management contracts with third parties.

Compensation

The compensation policy and all the information relating to the compensation paid to the company’s management bodies are shown in the Compensation Report §§22–25 and §28 of the Articles of Incorporation contain rules relating to compensation principles, loans to governing bodies, and AGM votes on compensation.