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DKSH Annual Report 2023 29Dr. Laurent Sigismondi (1976, Swiss/Italian)Dr. Laurent Sigismondi has been General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors of DKSH Holding Ltd. since March 2015. He has also been a member of the Executive Committee since July 2019. He heads DKSH%u2019s Legal, the Governance, Risk, and Compliance function (since July 2019) as well as the CEO Office and Group Strategy & Transformation (since August 2023). Before joining DKSH, Laurent Sigismondi was Head of Corporate Law at Novartis from 2011 to 2015 and Legal Counsel at Holcim from 2008 to 2011. Prior to that, he was an attorney-at-law with international Swiss law firms. Dr. Laurent Sigismondi taught Contract Law and Compliance at the Institute of International Business Law of the University of Fribourg. Furthermore, he is a member of the Legal and Competition Commissions of economiesuisse. Dr. Laurent Sigismondi was admitted to the Swiss bar in 2004 and holds a PhD in Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Neuch%u00e2tel, Switzerland, an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, an LL.M. in International Law from Columbia University, USA as well as an LL.M. in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.