
Most recently, she served as a Board member of Swiss Steel Group AG (2020-2022) and was a member of the executive committee of Ceconomy AG (2019-2021) where she oversaw strategy, capital market action and M&A. She currently serves in the Board of Directors of Leoni AG (Germany), a global supplier of wires, cables and wiring systems, and is an independent senior advisor for Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co KG/ Al Alpine (Luxembourg). Sonnenmoser has extensive experience in finance, capital markets and M&A. Eckstein holds a degree in electrical engineering from Siemens Academy. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Jenoptik, KK Wind, Saferoad and BE Semiconductor. Previously, she held multiple top-level management positions in leading global companies including Ope Rating and Digitalization Officer at Weidmüller Group (2013-2018) and COO of Osram Lighting (2008-2013), before that at AMD/Global Foundries, Altis Semiconductors and Siemens/Infineon. Since 2019, she has been serving as President and CEO of Enics Group, a leading global electronics manufacturing service provider headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Eckstein has more than 35 years of industrial experience in the field of Semiconductors, Electronics and Photonics. The nominations fill the vacancies left by the departure of two board members earlier this year and, if both were to be elected, u-blox’s Board will be again comprised of seven members, of which five will be independent. They will stand for election at an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting to be held on 21 November 2022 which, according to the actual COVID provisions, will take place in virtual format. Thalwil, Switzerland – 21 October 2022 – u-blox (SIX: UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning technologies, today announced that its Board of Directors has nominated Elke Eckstein and Karin Sonnenmoser to serve as independent members. U-blox Board of Directors nominates two new members
