REINACH, Switzerland – Archroma recently announced that it has appointed Thomas Bucher as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective Oct. 1, 2021. Bucher is replacing Roland Waibel, who will retire.
Bucher has a long career in finance, having held CFO roles with leading industrial and services companies as well as senior finance roles in the chemical sector. He joins Archroma from Alpiq Holding AG, where he has been Group CFO and a member of the executive management board since 2015. Prior to Alpiq, Bucher was Group CFO at Gategroup for six years, where he supported the company’s listing and subsequent strategic repositioning. Before that, he held a number of senior finance roles at Ciba Specialty Chemicals over more than 12 years.