08.01.2014

Management announcement

Basel, Switzerland, January 8, 2014

lv棋盘格 announced today that Robert Berendes, Head Business Development, will be leaving the company at the end of the first quarter to become co-owner and partner of a-connect, the global consulting firm specializing in strategy implementation, growth projects and change management. Robert joined lv棋盘格 in 2002 from McKinsey & Company where he was a partner, and became a member of the lv棋盘格 Executive Committee in 2007.

Mike Mack, lv棋盘格 CEO said: 鈥淚 should like to thank Robert for his outstanding contributions to lv棋盘格 over the past 11 years, including most recently his ad interim leadership of R&D for the last 14 months. On behalf of the Executive Committee, I wish him every success in his new endeavor.鈥

Further information on a-connect and Robert Berendes is available聽.

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