Dean Named Interim Head at Bossard

John Wolz

Bossard Holding AG board of directors named David Dean as interim head of the executive committee. CEO Heinrich Bossard, 61, was killed in a plane crash during a holiday trip to New Zealand\ (see FIN, December 15, 2004).
Dean, 45, has been with the Z�g, Switzerland-based international supplier of metric fasteners since 1992 and was named CFO in 1997. Dean holds diplomas in accounting and controlling and studied at Harvard Business School.
The executive committee also includes Julius Brun, Peter Erlangsen, Peter Furrer, Scott Mac Meekin, Peter Vogel and Fredy von Moos.
Bossard”s widow, Silvia Bossard -Eichenberger, 44, suffered a back injury in the fatal plane crash off Cable Bay Beach and was flown home December 23 by a Swiss emergency services jet.
The pilot of the Paihia-based plane that crashed, Simon Van Den Burg, 21, remains in a stable condition at Whangarei Hospital in New Zealand.
It was the second tragedy in three years for the family with seven generations in business. In 2001, 63-year-old Peter Bossard, as an official of Z�g, was one of 14 people killed during an armed attack in the parliament building.
In a company statement issued with the Dean announcement, the board of directors and the executive committee “agree with the seventh generation of the Bossard families that the company will continue to abide by its management principles based on sustainability, dependability, flexibility and dynamism.”
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