Ilias Läber

Ilias Läber became a member of Holcim’s Board of Directors of Holcim in 2022, and serves on the Audit and Nomination, Compensation & Governance committees. He is considered independent according to the Swiss Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance.
 

Background

A Swiss national born in 1974, Ilias holds an MSc in Engineering from ETH Zürich. He went on to obtain an MA in Economics and a doctorate from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
 

Ilias began his career at McKinsey & Company from 2001 to 2008, progressing to Associate Principal. From 2008 to 2019, he was Partner and Managing Director of Cevian Capital’s Swiss office. From 2013 until 2019, Ilias served on the Board of Directors of Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG, Basel, Switzerland, as Chairman of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee. In 2019, he joined Quercis Pharma AG, Zug, Switzerland, as CEO and Chairman of the Board.
 

Since 2021, he has been CEO, Partner and member of the Board of Directors of Spectrum Value Management Ltd, Switzerland. The firm administers the industrial and private investments of the Thomas Schmidheiny family. In this capacity, Ilias also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Grand Resort Bad Ragaz AG and as Chairman and Managing Partner of SEO Management AG.
 

Other activities and functions

• Member of the Board of Directors of dormakaba Holding AG, Rümlang, Switzerland
• Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Swiss Automotive Group AG, Cham, Switzerland