Board of Directors

Heinrich (Henry) Dattler, President of the Board of Directors

Heinrich Dattler was born in 1945 and is an Austrian national. He is President and Delegate of the Board of Directors. Mr. Dattler attended primary school in Austria and took his school leaving examinations at secondary school in Germany. He studied at Munich Polytechnic in Germany, his main focus being on engineering sciences. For over thirty years, Heinrich Dattler was an entrepreneur in the clothing, financial and software industries, and has founded seven companies in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Most recently, he founded OpenLimit SignCubes AG (formerly Bonneville Group AG), where the OpenLimit concept was developed.

René C. Jäggi, Vice president

René C. Jäggi was born 1948 and is a Swiss national. He studied Japanese and sports at Waseda University. As a qualified Sales Manager, he arrived by way of the tobacco conglomerate, Reynolds, at the battery manufacturer, Duracell, where he was responsible for the marketing department, and then moved on to Adidas. He was the CEO of Adidas from 1987 to 1992. From 1996 to 2002, he was Chairman of the Board of FC Basel, and afterwards, until mid 2006, he was Chairman and CEO of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and OK-Chief for the Kaiserslautern branch for the World Cup 2006. Since August 2006, he is the Chairman of the Board and delegate of the Board of Directors of GRJ AG in Basel. He is Chairman of the Board of Röder Zeltsysteme & Service AG in Büdigen (Germany), Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of OpenLimit Holding AG in Baar, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Artificial Life Inc. in Hong Kong / Berlin.

Eduard Egloff

 Eduard Egloff was born in 1947 and is a Swiss national. He joined the Zug Cantonal Bank as a banking apprentice, finishing his apprenticeship in 1966. He subsequently worked at Philipp Brother AG and Marc Rich & Co. AG, both international trading companies. He now works as an international business consultant.

Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Radu Popescu-Zeletin

Professor Doctor of Engineering, Dr. h.c. Radu Popescu-Zeletin is a member of the Board of Directors since November 2011, subject to the approval by the General Assembly. Mr. Popescu-Zeletin was born in 1947 in Romania and is German citizen. He had graduated at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest before he obtained his PhD at the University of Bremen and acquired a lecturing qualification at the Technical University of Berlin. For many years he has directed the R&D department of BERKOM project at the German Telekom. He has published numerous papers about distributed computer systems and applications. Professor Popescu-Zeletin currently cooperates in standardization committees and also in the development of telecommunication standards. Since 1987 he has been professor at the Technical University of Berlin and Head of Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). As internationally renowned expert, Prof. Popescu-Zeletin advises various high-tech groups as well as national and international boards and he founded several companies in the telecommunication sector. Mr. Popescu-Zeletin is and was member of different supervisory and advisory boards such as Detecon GmbH, Teles AG, GET (Grande Écoles de Télécommunications, France), IVISTAR AG etc.