Executive Committee

Daniel Lutz
CEO ORIOR Group

CEO ORIOR Group

Daniel Lutz graduated from the Executive Development course at IMD Lausanne and has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences. From 1992 to 2001 he worked for Nestlé Switzerland in various sales and marketing roles. Between 2002 and 2004 he was Marketing Manager at Nestlé for the development and strategic implementation of the ice cream market in Malaysia and Singapore. From 2004 to 2006 he did the same job for Nestlé in Mexico. In 2006 he was appointed as Marketing Director Nestlé Ice Cream Switzerland and one year later, in 2007, took charge of Nestlé Frisco Findus in Rorschach as Division Executive Manager. In 2011 Daniel Lutz moved to Nestlé China Ltd., where he was responsible for ice cream and frozen foods for two years. He then became Managing Director with overall responsibility for Nestlé Food & Beverage Greater China Region. In October 2014 the Board of Directors of ORIOR AG appointed him as CEO; he took over operational management of the Group in February 2015.


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Andreas Lindner
CFO ORIOR Group

CFO ORIOR Group

Andreas Lindner holds a degree in economics from the University of Basel (lic. rer. pol.). He began his professional career in 1994 at F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG in Basel, working as a controller for the company’s Latin American pharma operations. From 1996 to 1998 he was Head of the Controlling department and assistant to the Financial Director of Roche Argentina Ltd. in Buenos Aires. Afterwards he was appointed Director of Finance and Administration at Roche International Ltd. in Montevideo. Andreas Lindner returned to Switzerland in 2001 to serve as CFO of the Fine Foods Division of  Mövenpick Foods International Ltd. in Cham. From 2003 to 2005 he was CFO of Burger Söhne Group in Eich and from 2006 to 2007 CFO of AO Foundation, a subsidiary of Synthes AG, in Davos. In 2008, he joined Ricola Management AG, where he served as CFO of Ricola Group for more than 10 years, and as Deputy CEO from 2014 onwards. In March 2019, the Board of Directors of ORIOR AG appointed Andreas Lindner as ORIOR Group’s new CFO and a member of the Executive Committee. He assumed his new role at ORIOR at the end of October 2019.


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Andreas Lindner is member of Patria Cooperative in Basel.

Filip De Spiegeleire
Head ORIOR Europe

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.


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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.

Max Dreussi
Head segment Convenience

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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Milena Mathiuet
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

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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