As president and chief executive officer of BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Mr. Franz Bosshard has overall responsibility for all BSH business activities and strategic relationships throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. Bosshard is also a member of the BSH Home Appliances Corporation board of directors.
Mr. Bosshard joined BSH Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances, GmbH, Munich, Germany in 1999. Prior to becoming president and chief executive officer of BSH Home Appliances Corporation in July of 2002, Mr. Bosshard served for three years as chairman of the board of directors and president of BS Home Appliance Sales Company, Ltd., and chief representative, BSH China Office, Nanjing, China. He was instrumental in establishing Siemens as the Number One foreign major appliance brand in China.
Prior to joining BSH Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances, GmbH, Mr. Bosshard was associated for over 25 years with Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge Massachusetts. Prior to this he was chief executive officer of Polaroid Far East, Hong Kong, in charge of all operations and business activities in Asia, including India and Indochina. This position was preceded by a number of increasingly responsible posts in sales and marketing management in the United Kingdom, France, the Middle East, Africa and Switzerland.
Mr. Bosshard completed postgraduate coursework in Business Administration at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, after completing the Management Program at INSEAD, France and at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, two of the leading business schools in Europe. He received an Eidgen锟絪sisches Diplom in Marketing and Sales Management (equivalent to an masters degree in business administration) from the Swiss Education Center for Advertising and Information, Biel, Switzerland; an Eidgen锟絪sisches Diplom (equivalent to a bachelors degree in business administration) from the Handelsschule Juventus, Zurich, Switzerland; and an Eidgen锟絪sisches Diplom Electronics (similar to a bachelors degree in electrical engineering) from Brown Boveri School of Electrical Engineering, Baden, Switzerland. Mr. Bosshard was awarded an honorary doctor of philosophy degree in Business Administration from Southern California University for Professional Studies, Santa Ana, California. |