Gerhard Schürmann is CEO of Emil Frey, Europe’s largest automotive retailer with 850 locations and annual sales exceeding 600,000 vehicles and one of the world’s largest family-owned businesses, and is one of the most important top managers in the European automotive retail sector.
Almost 20 years before his official appointment as CEO, he was informally entrusted with the operational management of the Swiss company by Mr. Walter Frey, the current Chairman of the Board and son of the company’s founder. Mr. Schürmann had already been working for the company for over a decade prior to that. Throughout his tenure at the family firm, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the firm’s expansion into various European countries. Prior to that, he was director for group services for Eduard Keller AG, after having worked as head of finance and accounting at Landis & Gyr Building Control AG. Mr. Schürmann began his career in the internal audit division at UBS.
Mr. Schürmann studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen.