Executive Committee
Chairwoman and Delegate of the Board of Directors
Monika Friedli-Walser holds a master’s degree in rhetoric and technical communications from the University of Michigan (USA) and other educational credentials. In the years prior to 2000, she was mainly active in the field of marketing and sales. From 2000 to 2004, she served as Chief Communication Officer and a member of the Executive Board of TDC Switzerland AG (Sunrise). From 2005 to 2009, she was Head of Communications and Human Resources as well as Deputy CEO of Swissgrid AG and, from 2006 onward, concurrently Head of Communications and Political Affairs at UCTE, the Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity, in Brussels. Since 2009, she has been a partner at WAEGA-Group AG, Zurich, in which capacity she was CEO of the Swiss bag and accessories maker Freitag lab AG, Zurich, until January 2014. In spring 2014, she became CEO and Delegate to the Board of Directors of de Sede AG. On 21 May 2025, Monika Friedli-Walser was elected Chairwoman and Delegate of the Board of Directors of ORIOR AG by the Annual General Meeting.
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Monika Friedli-Walser is as a partner of the WAEGA Group in the mandate of the CEO role as well as delegate and a member of the Board of Directors of de Sede AG, Klingnau, and of its sister company De Ligno AG, Zollbrück, which both are affiliated to Volare Group AG, Suhr. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors of Sanitas Beteiligungen AG and of Sanitas Stiftung, Zurich, and a member of the Board of Directors of Zoo Zurich AG, Zurich.
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 Credit 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 Committee of the ORIOR Group. Since 1 November 2024, he has been a member of the Executive Committee, and as of 11 November, responsible for the financial management of the ORIOR Group.
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Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Milena Mathiuet holds a Master of Science in Business Administration 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 Grouplevel communications projects, including in connection with the Company’s subsequent IPO. In 2012, she assumed responsibility for Group Investor Relations as well as for M&A from 2014. 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 as well as Group-level issues such as sustainability, corporate governance, and various legal affairs. Her growing responsibilities were subsequently subsumed into her new role as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. Milena Mathiuet has been a member of the Extended Executive Committee of ORIOR Group since 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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