Key attributes for the Board:
With four decades of experience within the Group and extensive leadership responsibility across key regions and distribution markets, Wolfgang Becker brings deep operational expertise and a comprehensive understanding of the Group’s business model, culture, and global footprint. His long-standing leadership experience, strategic insight, and close connection to customers and markets will provide valuable perspective and continuity at Board level.

Career highlights:
Wolfgang Becker began his professional career at Straumann Group in 1986 and held a series of managerial positions of increasing responsibility in the company’s German subsidiary, becoming Head of Human Resources in 1991, Head of Marketing in 2000, and General Manager of Straumann Germany in 2001. He served on Straumann Group’s Executive Committee as Head of Sales Europe from 2005 to 2006. His responsibilities then focused on the company’s business in Central and Eastern Europe and distributor markets. In 2013, he rejoined the Group’s Executive Management Board.

Qualifications: 
Commercial apprenticeship; further business education, including diplomas from the St. Gallen Management Center.