Stefan Scheiber

Stefan Scheiber graduated in Business Administration from the University of Applied Science in St. Gallen and later continued his education at the Institute IMD Lausanne and the Harvard Business School.

In 1986, Stefan Scheiber started as a management trainee at Bühler and has spent more than 30 years with Bühler in different functions. From 1988 onwards, he has worked in various international management positions within Bühler worldwide, including East and South Africa, Eastern Europe, and Germany.

After a first international assignment in Nairobi, Kenya, he became Commercial Manager and interim Sales & Service Manager at Bühler South Africa.  

In 1999, he took charge of the Brewing/Malting and Rice business units, located in Braunschweig, Germany, and thereafter, assumed the overall responsibility for Bühler in Germany. From mid-2005, Stefan Scheiber headed the Sales & Services division and became Member of the Executive Board at the age of 39. In 2009, he was named Division Manager of the Engineered Products division which he divided and reorganized into the Food Processing and the Advanced Materials divisions. He led the Food Processing division as of 2009 for the next four years.

In 2014, he was charged with the reorganization and integration of the Food Processing and the Grain Processing divisions, creating the Grains & Food division, which he led until 2016. Stefan Scheiber was appointed CEO of the Bühler Group on July 1, 2016, and became Member of the Board of Directors on August 28, 2020. 

Furthermore, Stefan Scheiber is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Kistler Group and Bucher Industries AG, and a Member of the Executive Committee of Swissmem as well as of economiesuisse.

Stefan Scheiber was born in 1965 and is Swiss.