Dr. Pius Baschera is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hilti Corporation, Schaan, Principality of Liechtenstein, since the beginning of 2007. Prior to his appointment as Chairman, Pius Baschera was Chief Executive Office of the Hilti Corporation for 13 years. ETH Zurich entrusted him with a part-time lectureship for innovation management in 1998 and then appointed him titular professor in 2001. Since January 2007 he is Professor of Practice, with a pensum of 25%. On completing his studies to become a mechanical engineer and business economist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1974, he followed up by obtaining a doctorate (Dr. sc. techn. ETH). His professional career has focused fully on the Hilti Group: In 1979, he joined the Group as the Manager of Production Controlling of the Hilti Corporation before moving to Hilti USA in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to manage the company's corporate development function at his location. The positions of General Manager of Hilti (Switzerland) AG and General Manager of Hilti Deutschland GmbH were further stages in his career before, in 1990, he was appointed VP Market Region Europe 1 and, one year later, Member of the Executive Board in the function of the Chief Financial Officer. 

 Mechanical Engineering