Member of the Regulatory Board, SIX Exchange Regulation, Board Member of the SGCI Chemie Pharma Schweiz. 

He started his career in Corporate Audit with Roche (1983) and became Finance Director of Roche Korea (1988) and then Head of Finance and Information Technology at Nippon Roche in Tokyo (1990). He was appointed Vice President Finance and Information Technology at Roche, US (1996) and then Head of Finance and Informatics of the Roche Vitamins Division (2000). He was involved in the sale of this business to DSM (2003) before joining Givaudan (2004).

Born in 1953, Matthias Währen is a Swiss national and a graduate of the University of Basel.