CEO of the WIKA Group, a family-run business, worldwide known as a leading company in pressure and temperature measurement with a global turnover of 900 Mio €. After his graduation from the ETH Zurich as a degreed engineer in Mechanical Engineering he became research assistant at the institute for machine tool building and production engineering of ETH Zurich. In 1996 Mr. Wiegand took over the management of WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG