Hans Ulrike Maerki

Date of Birth: 17th of November, 1946

Home Country: Switzerland

AIESEC RECORDS
:: Local Committee President - Basel, Switzerland (1970)
:: AIESEC International Secretariat member (1971)
:: International Senior Member (1972)

ACHIEVEMENTS
In the AIESEC International Secretariat Mr. Maerki was responsible for the exchange development and in charge of negotiations with the MIT team concerning the first electronic exchange program’s development.

Mr. Maerki chaired the Presidents’ Meetings in Basel (1971) and in Barcelona (1973) as well as the Congresses in Aarhus and in Bordeaux. (1974)

As a Branch Manager and later as Country General manager of IBM in Switzerland, Mr. Maerki, supported Career Fair events at several universities.

Serving as the General Manager of IBM Global Services EMEA, Mr. Maerki built a people-oriented IT services business which today is the largest in Europe. Between 1996 and 2001, Mr. Maerki doubled revenue to reach the level of $12 Billion.

Mr. Maerki is IBM’s Executive Sponsor of an initiative called Career Space that is fostering synchronization of information technology curricula among the IT companies operating in Europe and in the education standards.

Mr. Maerki is a member of the World Wide Management Committee of IBM Corporation since 1997.

Following this success, Mr. Maerki was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of IBM in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, thereby co-leading a 28 billion dollar business with more than 95.000 employees in 124 countries.

Mr. Maerki also serves on the Boards of ABB Ltd, Mikron and Mettler-Toledo.

Mr. Maerki is a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Advisory Board that represents around 50 large European corporations and national CSR organisations.