He is Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG and serves on the board of the fully-owned subsidiary, Genentech Inc. He joined the Board of SystemIQ to help drive positive disruption in economic systems and sits on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, and the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He is President of W.A. de Vigier Stiftung, Vice-chairman of the board of the Venture Foundation, as well as the President of Fondation Tour du Valat. He studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.