Among others, he was CFO of the diagnostics division in the USA and CFO of the imaging and therapy systems division in Germany until 2011. Afterward, he had served for seven years as Corporate Vice President Controller of Siemens AG until he came back to Siemens Healthineers. As of March 2018, the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as Siemens Healthineers AG (SHL). In September 2021, Siemens Healthineers entered the DAX, Germany’s most important stock market index. Jochen Schmitz completed his studies in Business Administration and Economics at the University of Augsburg. He also holds a doctoral degree in the same field. He was born in Moenchengladbach, Germany, in 1966.