Executive Committee (EC)

Management Structure

Effective 1 January 2025, dormakaba introduced the newly created role of Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) to drive the execution of dormakaba’s transformation initiatives to elevate the Group’s performance. Together with the streamlined Executive Committee setup introduced two years ago, the present management approach amplifies the strategic focus on core business and customer-centricity. All AS business is combined into one global unit led by the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). This 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 (North America, Germany, Switzerland, Australia & New Zealand, UK & Ireland, China and India) report directly to the CCO. The Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) role leads all global engineering capabilities and is responsible for dormakaba’s innovation strategy. The Chief Operations Officer (COO) ensures plant productivity and factory network optimization with lean manufacturing and optimized direct and indirect spend. The President KWO has the entrepreneurial responsibility for the KWO segment, including product development, production, sales, and services. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for the Group’s financial affairs. Further global corporate functions such as Strategy, Sustainability, Human Resources, IT, and Legal define and monitor Group-wide standards.

EC dormakaba Group as of 30 June 2025

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 2024/25, the following changes within the EC were made:

• René Peter was appointed as CFO ad interim, effective 1 July 2024, and as CFO, effective 25 February 2025, succeeding Christina Johansson who sadly passed away in February 2025 after a prolonged illness.
• Carsten Frank was appointed as COO, effective 1 August 2024, succeeding Stefano Zocca (as COO ad interim)
• Christian Baur was appointed as President Key & Wall Solutions and OEM and CTO, effective 1 January 2025, succeeding Stefano Zocca (as President Key & Wall Solutions and OEM).

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.