Dr. Harald Sommerer - Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

"As a company we aim to secure a leading position in the global lighting market.. With this in mind, we pursue the very highest standards in terms of customer satisfaction, innovation and quality. Our core strength is our knowledge and understanding of the application of light. In conjunction with LED technology, this knowledge becomes a key competitive factor and a firm anchor in times of far-reaching technological change. As a result, we can invariably select the right lighting technology from the full spectrum to provide our customers with the optimum solution."

Harald Sommerer has been a member of the Management Board since 25 March 2010 and CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of Zumtobel AG since 1 May 2010. His term of office extends until 30 April 2013.

Mr. Sommerer was born in Vienna in 1967, and received a Doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Economics and Corporate Management in Vienna as well as a Master of Management from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. From 1997 to 2010 Harald Sommerer was a member of the Management Board of AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG, where he served as CFO from 1998 to 2005 and CEO from 2005 to January 2010.

Additional functions or inter-company relations outside the Zumtobel Group: member of the Professional Association Committee of FEEI, Vienna (Austria) since 1 May 2010, member of the Management Boards of the Vorarlberg Federation of Industry and the Federation of Austrian Industry since 1 May

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