The Supervisory Council is responsible for the development of the long-term Strategy for the centre that helps it achieve its mission to create and disseminate world class knowledge and provide knowledge exchange platforms in the area of family businesses. In addition, the council is responsible for the governance activities at the Centre.
Managing Partner, Spectrum Value Management Ltd, Rapperswil-Jona
He studied law at the University of Zurich, obtaining a doctorate in 1989. He began his professional career as a credit officer with Bank of New York in New York, before taking up an appointment as CFO of Tyrolit (Swarovski group), based in Innsbruck and Zurich, in 1991. From 1993 until 2001, he was with McKinsey & Company, ultimately as a partner, and was involved in numerous projects with industrial, financial and technology firms in Europe, the US and Southeast Asia. In October 2002, he co-founded Swiss-based Spectrum Value Management Ltd, which administers the industrial and private investments of the family Thomas Schmidheiny. He joined Spectrum Value Management Ltd. as Managing Partner and at the beginning of 2006 he became CEO. In addition he serves as member of the Board of LafargeHolcim, Rieter, IHAG Holding and Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. He was a former Board member of Rieter, the world’s leading supplier of spinning machines.
In India he was a Board member of the Mumbai based Edelweiss Financial Services.
Dean and Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation, ISB
Co-Chairman & CEO, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd & Member, Executive Board, ISB
Managing Partner, Ernst Schmidheiny Foundation, Rapperswil-Jona
Daniel Clark Sanders Chair Professor,Entrepreneurship and Family Business,Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont
Executive Director, Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise
Kavil Ramachandran is Professor and Executive Director of the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at the Indian School of Business. He received his PhD in Business Management from Cranfield University, UK, in 1986. For the next 15 years he served as Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His areas of specialization are family business, entrepreneurship and strategic management. He has done extensive research on various aspects of family business and has published in Journal of Business Venturing, Global Strategy Journal and Journal of Business Ethics. His special areas of interest are strategy, governance and professionalisation; he has been a consultant to family businesses in India and outside. He is a frequent speaker on family business and regularly contributes to the media.