Executive Committee
Head ORIOR Europe
Filip De Spiegeleire holds an MBA from the Drucker School of Management of Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles (USA). He joined Amando NV, his family company specialising in fine meats in 1987 and managed the company as its CEO from 1992 to 2000. In 1989 Filip De Spiegeleire established his own company Culinor, a company that specialises in premium fresh convenience food, and, as a result of the increased focus on the growing market of fresh convenience food, Amando was sold in 2000. Under the leadership of its founder and CEO Filip De Spiegeleire, Culinor developed into a successful food group that is well-known in the Benelux. In August 2016 Culinor Food Group became an autonomous competence centre of ORIOR. Filip De Spiegeleire led the Culinor Food Group until the end of 2022 and will focus on his strategic tasks as a member of the Group Executive Board as well as on his role as CEO of ORIOR Europe since 1 January 2023. As of 7 November 2024 Filip De Spiegeleire assumes the post of CEO of ORIOR Group on an interim basis.
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Filip De Spiegeleire is the managing director of Espejo BV and in this function member of the Board of Directors of Pâtisserie Alsacienne Bloch NV, Destelbergen, Belgium.
CFO ORIOR Group
Sacha D. Gerber holds an International Executive MBA HSG in General Management from the University of St. Gallen. He began his professional career in 2000 as a Recovery Manager at Crédit Suisse. After two years, Sacha D. Gerber moved to the Swatch Group, where he held various finance functions before being appointed CFO of various production units in 2007. From 2010, he was CFO of the Hero Group for eight years. In addition to his role as CFO, Sacha D. Gerber managed the entire supply chain of Hero Switzerland as COO from 2013 and also assumed commercial responsibility for the Foodservice business unit from 2016. In 2018, he spent five years as CFO of the Calida Group, where he was responsible for Finance, Controlling, Reporting, Treasury, Legal, Tax and Investor Relations. In June 2023, he moved to the Emmi Group as CFO. In August 2024, the Board of Directors of ORIOR AG appointed Sacha D. Gerber as the new CFO and member of the Executive Board of ORIOR Group. He assumed his new role at ORIOR on 11 November 2024.
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Head segment Convenience
Max Dreussi earned a dual Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Bern and the University of Rochester/Simon Business School (NY). He broadened his leadership skills through the Programme for Executive Development (PED) at the IMD in Lausanne and other programmes. He began his career as an assistant to the managing director of Hosta, a manufacturer of chocolate and confectionery in Neuhausen. In 1995, Max Dreussi joined Frisco-Findus, where he held several positions over nearly ten years, before being assigned to Nestlé Frozen Food Europe in Brussels, where he was responsible for product launches in international markets. He then served as a sales and marketing director with Moevenpick Premium Ice Cream before accepting a position as head of the Nestlé Division Food Service in Rorschach and was then promoted to Country Business Executive Manager for Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. In 2014, Max Dreussi took over management responsibility for Kern & Sammet AG, a producer of frozen bakery products in Wädenswil. From April 2017 to December 2022 he was Managing Director of Fredag and, in this role, from January 2019 member of ORIOR’s Extended Executive Committee. In August 2021, the Board of Directors of ORIOR AG appointed Mr Dreussi as CEO of the entire Convenience segment, which comprises the Fredag, Le Patron, Pastinella and Biotta business units, and made him a member of the Executive Committee. He handed over the leadership of Fredag as of 1 January 2023.
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Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Milena Mathiuet holds a Master of Science in Business Administration with a major in Corporate/Business Development from the St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences as well as a Master of Advanced Studies in Business Law from the Swiss Distance University of Applied Science. She began her professional career at various hotels and restaurants in Switzerland and Asia after obtaining a Swiss Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Hospitality Management (Hôtelière-Restauratrice HF). Milena Mathiuet joined ORIOR Group as Executive Assistant to the Group CEO in 2007, a position that included responsibility for Group-level communications projects, also in connection with the company’s subsequent IPO. After completing the executive study program, she assumed responsibility for Group Investor Relations in 2012 and, from 2014, also for M&A. Following a general reassignment of management tasks in 2016, she was appointed Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations with responsibility for all communications at Group level. In this role she also oversees Group-level issues such as sustainability, corporate governance, and various legal affairs. Her growing responsibilities were subsequently subsumed in her new role as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. Milena Mathiuet has been a member of the Extended Executive Committee of ORIOR Group since the beginning of 2019 and is actively involved in the preparation of strategic topics as well as in the implementation and enforcement of compliance and disclosure requirements and procedures. The Board of Directors appointed Milena Mathiuet to the Executive Committee of ORIOR Group effective 1 September 2022.
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