The Board of Directors of Gurit Holding AG has appointed Dr. Javier Perez Freije as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Karen Glauser as the new Group Head of Human Resources.
Javier joins Gurit Holding from the Mikron Group as of May 1, 2024. He brings experience from Netstal Maschinen and Autoneum. Javier is a Spanish citizen and graduated with a Master of Business Administration and Engineering from the University of Siegen (Germany) and a PhD from the University of St. Gallen. Javier will assume the role of CFO of Gurit Holding from Philippe Wirth, who will depart Gurit at the end of March 2024.
Karen joined Gurit Holding from UPL on February 1, 2024. She brings previous experience from Thermo Fisher Scientific and F. Hoffmann-La Roche. Karen is both a Swiss and New Zealand citizen and graduated with a Master of Science from HEC (Paris). Karen will assume the role of Group Head of HR of Gurit Holding AG from Hannes Haueis, who left Gurit at the end of November 2023.
