Management

The management is responsible for the operative management of the Ypsomed Group within the scope of the guidelines laid down by the Board of Directors. Its duties are defined in the Organization Policy.

	Name	Nationality	Position	Function since*
.	Dr. h. c. Willy Michel	Swiss	CEO	2011
	Niklaus Ramseier	Swiss	CFO	2002
	Simon Michel	Swiss	Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales	2006
	Dr. Beat Maurer	Swiss	Senior Vice President Legal & Intellectual Property, Secretary of the Board	1992
	Hans Ulrich Lehmann	Swiss	Senior Vice President Technology	2011
	Dr. Benjamin Reinmann	Swiss	Senior Vice President Operations	2011
	Yvonne Müller	Swiss	Senior Vice President Human Resources	2003

^{*pre-2003 with Disetronic}

Dr. h. c. Willy Michel
Dr. h. c. Willy Michel assumes the roles of CEO of the Ypsomed Group (since mid of August 2011) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ypsomed Holding AG (since 1984, including membership of the Board of Directors of Disetronic). Disetronic, set up 1984 to develop reliable insulin pumps, was sold to Roche in 2003. Disetronic’s injection division was carved out and kept by Willy Michel personally under the new name Ypsomed and successfully performed an IPO in 2004. Prior to the establishment of Disetronic, Willy Michel gained experience in a number of industrial and pharmaceutical enterprises in the areas of development, sales and marketing and headed Novo-Nordisk Switzerland for six years.

Niklaus Ramseier
CFO, with Ypsomed (pre-2003 with Disetronic) since 2002, prior to that Head of Finance and Controlling for the industrial services product line of the Von Roll Group (from 1995 until 2002) and various advisory and accounting functions within a trust and auditing company. Education: Swiss certified expert for accounting and controlling.

Simon Michel
Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales, with Ypsomed since October 2006. Member of management since 2008 and responsible for Marketing & Sales. From 2003 until 2006, he worked for Orange Telecommunications in Zurich and Lausanne where he was responsible for, among other things, the introduction and marketing of UMTS. He has been on the Board of Directors at Sphinx Werkzeuge AG since 2006 and on the executive committee of the local trade and industry association since 2008. Simon Michel has studied Economics at the University of St. Gallen and completed a Masters with a focus on Media and Communications Management.

Dr. Beat Maurer
Dr. iur., attorney-at-law, Senior Vice President Legal & Intellectual Property, Secretary to the Board of Directors of Ypsomed Holding AG, with Ypsomed (pre-2003 with Disetronic) since 1992, prior to that tax and legal consultant with a trust and auditing company. Education: degree in Law from the University of Freiburg, studied at the Free University of Berlin, doctorate in Law from the University of Bern and admitted to the bar in the Canton of Bern. Beat Maurer has been a judge specializing in issues relating to intellectual property law at the commercial court of the Canton of Bern since 2002. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of FASMED, the Federation of Swiss Medical Devices Trade and Industry Associations, based in Muri b. Bern.

Hans Ulrich Lehmann
Senior Vice President Technology since 2011. He has been with Ypsomed since 2000 in different positions. Initially, as Senior Project Manager for R&D projects, several years as Vice President Manufacturing and Vice President Technology. Previously he has worked in various responsibilities within medical device manufacturing and injection molding companies in Switzerland and USA. He graduated as a mechanical engineer and completed the postgraduate program in business administration at the University of Applied Science in Bern and also completed the Program for Leadership Development PLD at Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.

Dr. Benjamin Reinmann
Senior Vice President Operations, with Ypsomed since 2002 (before 2003 at Disetronic), active in various capacities and a member of the executive management since 2011. Former medical practitioner at the Universitätskinderspital (University Children’s Hospital) Berne (2001 – 2002) and Research Associate at Universität Bern (1997 – 2001). Education and training: Studied Medicine, Doctorate in Medicine (Dr. med.) and Structural Biology (Dr. phil.) at Universität Bern, postgraduate studies in business management at PHW Bern.

Yvonne Müller
Senior Vice President Human Resources, with Ypsomed since 2003, prior to that responsibility for training at the Bernese Cantonal Bank BEKB | BCBE (from 2002 until 2003) and for human resources at X-Media and Scout24 (from 2000 until 2002) as well as at IKEA (from 1996 until 2000). Education: graduate human resources specialist.