ARYZTA - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief Procurement Officer
• Member of the ARYZTA Group Executive Committee

Christophe was appointed a member of the ARYZTA group Executive Committee in October 2023 and has over 25 years of experience in the food industry. Christophe has held various procurement leadership positions in ARYZTA for the past 17 years and rejoined the group in January 2021 to be appointed Chief Procurement Officer in July 2021. Prior to that, he held a COO and Board member position for a mid-sized business growing a sustainable organic and fairtrade food Farm to fork model in Europe, West Africa, South America, and Maghreb. Trained in the food industry, Christophe holds an executive MBA from HEC Paris and started his career in South Africa taking over and reviving a struggling bakery business.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Category Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Member of the Category Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Group Chief Financial Officer

Martin Huber joins ARYZTA with a wealth of finance and controlling expertise and a strong track record in driving value creation in both turnaround and growth business situations. Martin is a highly experienced multinational executive having lived and worked in Switzerland, Germany, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. Over the last 20 years at Nestlé, he has held senior finance and controlling positions as market CFO. From 2011 to begining of 2016 he was the market CFO for Nestlé Brazil subsequently he assumed the role of Head of Group Control at Nestlé S.A. and from 2018, Martin was the CFO for the globally managed business of Nespresso. Martin Joined the Executive Comittee in August 2021.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Member of the Audit Committee
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Category Board of Directors
• Non - Executive Member
• Senior Executive With Significant Management and Non - Executive Director

Alejandro Legarda Zaragüeta is a highly experienced senior executive with significant management and non-executive director experience within various sectors, including transport, gas and food related industries. From 1994 to 2004 he was managing director of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles S.A. (‘CAF'), a listed group which manufactures railway vehicles and signalling equipment and stayed on as a director of the non-executive board until 2019. His responsibilities were the management of the company's global business. From 2006 to 2018, Alejandro was an independent director of Viscofan S.A., a listed group and the world leader in the manufacturing of casings for meat products, with commercial presence in over 100 countries around the world. He was independent director for Pescanova and Nueva Pescanova, a multinational fishing, farming and processing group from 2014 to 2017. Amongst the boards he has served on, Alejandro was executive chairman of the board of Nortegas Energıa y Distribución S.A. from 2017 to 2019 and an independent director of Duro Felguera S.A. from 2018 to 2019. 2022 was appointed member of the Board of Instituto Navarro de Inversiones, a regional promotion Bank in Spain. Alejandro became a member of the Board in November 2019.

Job Titles:

• Lead Independent Director
• Member of the Audit Committee
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Category Board of Directors
• Member of the Remuneration Committee
• Non - Executive Member

Heiner Kamps is a successful food entrepreneur with over 40 years of industrial experience. He founded the bakery chain Kamps AG, which he led as CEO until 2002. Since 2003, Heiner Kamps has held shares in various companies. From 2005 to 2018, he and other investors, owned a majority stake in the Nordsee GmbH fast food chain. From 2011 to 2015, he was CEO of the Müller Milch Group and from 2015 to 2018 chairman of its supervisory board. Heiner Kamps founded the charitable foundation Brot gegen Not (Bread against misery), which supports training in the bakery trade in needy regions. He is a trained baker and confectioner. Heiner became a member of the Board in September 2020. The Audit Committee's role includes reviewing the Group and Company Financial Statements, the interim and full year results and the significant financial reporting judgements contained therein. The Audit Committee also reviews the Group's internal controls, and the scope and effectiveness of the Group's Internal Audit function. The Head of Internal Audit has access to the Audit Committee at all times and he and the Chief Financial Officer regularly attend meetings of the Audit Committee by invitation. The role of the Lead Independent Director and his duties are set out in detail in the Organizational Regulations of ARYZTA AG. Following the November 2021 AGM, the ARYZTA Board appointed Jörg Riboni as Lead Independent Director. In November 2023 Heiner Kamps replaced Jörg Riboni as Lead Independent Director.  Given the dual role mandate of Chairman and interim CEO, the ARYZTA AG Board decided that the Chairman would not sit on any the Board Committees nor does he attend the non-executive Board member meetings.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Member of the Audit Committee
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Category Board of Directors
• Member of the Remuneration Committee
• Non - Executive Member

Hélène Weber-Dubi has over 20 years experience in the food industry with a focus on Finance and Accounting, as well as Management Buy-Out, Mergers and Acquisitions and IPO. From 1999-2015, Ms. Weber-Dubi was CFO of the ORIOR-Group, a major Swiss food company and was a member of the Group Management Board. In 1996, Ms. Weber-Dubi accepted a position as financial controller with Bally. That same year, she was promoted to Managing Director of Bally Switzerland, Bally Italy and Bally Spain with a seat on the international Executive Board. In 1999 she was put in charge of financial control of Bally International and was primarily tasked with executing the sale of Bally to Texas Pacific Group. From 1982 to 1995 she held various management positions with Unilever in Switzerland and the UK, mostly in auditing and finance. Ms. Weber-Dubi is a member of the Board of Directors of Ospelt Anstalt in Bendern (FL). Hélène became a member of the Board in December 2020.

Job Titles:

• Head of Investor Relations

Job Titles:

• General Counsel and Company Secretary / Vita

1974, Irish Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland; Law (LLB Hons), Trinity College Dublin; Masters (LLM Hons) in Commercial Law from University College Dublin; Diploma in Notarial Law & Practice (Dip. Not.) (F.N.P.I.), Faculty of Notaries Public in Ireland Rhona has served as a senior legal and regulatory advisor with over 20 years of legal and governance experience. Rhona joined ARYZTA on 11 September 2018 from DCC Vital Ltd (part of the DCC plc business) where she held the role of Senior Counsel, Legal & Compliance. Prior to joining DCC Vital, Rhona was Senior Director of Legal and Risk Management at Parexel International (IRL) Limited. Rhona was General Counsel and a member of the Executive Senior Management Team from 2013 to 2016 and Director of Regulation, Public Policy, Compliance and Equivalence from 2014 to 2016 at eir (formerly eircom). Rhona trained with Arthur Cox and is a qualified solicitor admitted in Ireland by the Law Society of Ireland and in England and Wales by the Law Society of England and Wales.

Job Titles:

• Chief Operations Officer

Sandip has 20 years of experience in the Bakery industry and was appointed as Chief Operations Officer and a member of the Executive Committee in April 2023. Sandip joined ARYZTA in 2015 and has held a variety of leadership roles across the Group, most recently as the Managing Director of the Global Bun Bakeries business unit and preceding that as Chief Customer Officer, ARYZTA Europe. Prior to joining ARYZTA, Sandip spent more than a decade at United Biscuits (now Pladis) working across a number of geographies (Europe, Asia and Africa) in diverse leadership and commercial roles. Sandip started his career as a lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP (London) in 2001.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Category Board of Directors
• Chairman and Executive Member
• Interim CEO

Urs Jordi has more than 30 years of experience in various national and international food companies at management and board level. He held various management positions within the Hiestand and ARYZTA Group, most recently as CEO of the listed Hiestand Holding AG (from 2008 within ARYZTA AG), and from 2010 to 2013 as CEO ARYZTA Food Europe & Asia Pacific. Since 2014, Urs Jordi has been involved in various own investments. He serves on the board of Schweizer Zucker AG. Urs Jordi is a trained baker and confectioner. Urs became a member and Chair of the Board in September 2020 and was appointed by the ARYZTA Board as Interim Group CEO on 19 November 2020.