Michael Halbherr

Member of the Board of Directors

Nationality:Swiss

Born: 1964

Skills and experience

Michael Halbherr has extensive experience in the technology industry and has worked as an adviser, early stage investor, board member and executive in young, aspiring companies in areas including digital mapping, operating system software, telecommunications, electrification and industrial applications. From 2021 until 2024, he was a member of the board of Vontobel Holding AG in Zurich. He was chairman of Trafi Ltd. in Vilnius from 2016 until 2022 and of FATMAP Ltd. in Berlin from 2015 until 2022, which was subsequently sold to Strava, Inc. Prior to that he held leadership positions in Nokia Corporation from 2006 to 2014, including from 2011 to 2014 as a member of Nokia’s leadership team and CEO of HERE BV, a fully owned Nokia company and leading company in vehicle location technology. From 2001 to 2006, he served as CEO of gate5, a Berlin-based mobile phone software startup, which Nokia acquired in 2006. From 2000 to 2001, he was a managing director at Europeatweb, a venture arm of Groupe Arnault. Prior to that he was a manager at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from 1994 to 2000, in the company’s Zurich and Boston offices, where he was an active member of BCG’s technology practice. He began his career at the Laboratory for Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked as a visiting scientist and post-doctoral researcher from 1992 to 1994, working on programming paradigms for massively parallel computers. He joined the boards of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd in April 2019.

Committee membership

Governance, Nominations and Sustainability Committee, Risk and Investment Committee

Other directorships within the Group

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

External appointments

Mr. Halbherr is CEO of ABB E-mobility Holding Ltd. He is also a non-executive director and chairman of German Bionic Systems GmbH in Augsburg and Nanoleq AG in Zurich.