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Board of Directors
Peter Gmür
Chairman of the Board of Directors of JATROPOWER AG, Swiss citizen. After graduating as an Engineer at the Swiss Polytechnicum (ETHZ) and obtaining his MBA at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co in Europe, Japan and North Africa.
Before being active as an Entrepreneur and founding and developing his own group of companies, Peter Gmür was Chairman and CEO of an international Group with sales of over US$ 1.2 billion. He serves on the Board of Directors of Swiss and international companies.
Dr. Peter Bollmann
Member of the Board of Directors of JATROPOWER AG, Swiss citizen, has more than 30 years experience in corporate management and finance internationally. He obtained his PhD from the University of St. Gallen and has among others been CFO in various international groups based in Switzerland and CEO of companies and groups based in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Austria.
The companies in which he has worked have been involved in the fields of capital equipment, manufacturing, transport, advertising, life science, biofuels and venture capital management. He is serving on the Board of Directors of several nationally and internationally active companies.
Dr. George Francis
CEO of JATROPOWER Group, is of Indian nationality. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, he did 6 years of fundamental research on Jatropha. He also has extensive experience of managing intercultural projects.
Dr. Francis played a key role in the DaimlerChrysler-DEG Jatropha project titled “Biofuels from Eroded Soils in India”, during his time at Hohenheim. This was the first comprehensive project to investigate the many aspects of Jatropha cultivation on wasteland, extraction of oil from its seeds, biodiesel production and the potential uses of the by-products remaining after oil extraction. He has acted as a consultant on Jatropha and other bio-energy projects to national governments, multinational financial institutions and private companies world-wide. He has several articles on the potential of Jatropha to his credit and has delivered keynote lectures on this and related topics at international fora.
Dr. Peter Bollmann
Member of the Board of Directors of JATROPOWER AG, German citizen, hands-on transformation expert with more than 15 years of international experience in mission critical situations. He is currently a Managing Director at the specialist consulting firm Ardentum Group AG, used to be a Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as well as a Director at AlixPartners, and is a lecturer on Full Potential Plans at the Hochschule Luzern. Before his career in consulting, he held various roles at Acer in Switzerland and Taiwan and obtained an MBA from INSEAD.
His expertise stretches from Value Creation Programs, Organizational Transformation, Change Management, SG&A optimization, and Restructuring.