Niklaus Meier joins MEGlobal as new CFO
MEGlobal has announced Niklaus Meier, current controller and head of group control at Ciba in Switzerland, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Meier succeeds Werner Baur in the position, who is retiring from MEGlobal. Meier joined MEGlobal on September 1, 2011 and will collaborate with Werner to ensure a smooth transition.
The MEGlobal board and Ramachandran engaged in an extensive external search for the next CFO and Meier was the unanimous choice.
Before joining MEGlobal, Meier held a variety of management positions at Ciba in accounting and group control when he joined the company in 1995 as head of accounting. In 1997, he was named Ciba’s head of the business support center where he was responsible for accounting and controls under US-GAAP. He reported for approximately 20 affiliate companies in Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and South Africa in this role. In 2002, he was named head of group control, where he was responsible for accounting, consolidation, internal controls (SOX) internal and external reporting. In addition, he led part of the internal project team that changed the regional finance organization into a global organization along SAP work processes. He was also the interim CFO towards the end of his engagement.
Meier earned a Swiss Federal Diploma as an Expert in Accounting and Controlling and is a member of the VEB work group “Swiss Controlling Standards.”
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