Martin Hellweg is Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Besides his activities at Swissmetal he works also as Chairman and Managing Partner of the Ally Management Group where he focuses primarily on restructuring situations, strategic repositionings as well as financial and transaction management. In this context, Martin Hellweg typically assumes an overall leadership role for a defined period of time, acts as a management coach or serves as a board member. As part of his activities, Martin Hellweg currently acts as Delegate of the Board of Directors of the Wetzel Processing Group, a globally leading company in the printing and embossing industry with its headquarter in Switzerland and operational activities in Germany and Poland.
Before his current appointment as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swissmetal, he had already served as CEO and Delegate of the Board with the key task to refinance the company and carry out a comprehensive restructuring program. Among other prior engagements, Martin Hellweg also served as Member of the Executive Board of the Keramik Laufen Group, a Swiss-based, publicly-listed enterprise in the ceramics industry, where he successfully restructured his areas of responsibility, helped sell the company on behalf of the majority owner to the Roca Group and thus contributed to the formation of a leading global ceramics manufacturer.

During his professional career, Martin Hellweg furthermore worked as a management consultant as well as in several corporate finance functions. Martin Hellweg earned an MBA from the Simon Graduate School of Business of the University of Rochester, New York, where he currently serves as a member of the Alumni Advisory Board and teaches in the combined American-Swiss branch of the program, the Rochester-Bern Executive MBA Program. Martin Hellweg furthermore tought and teaches, respectively, for the Institute of Financial Management at the University of Bern and for the Institute of Management at the University of St. Gallen.
Besides his professional work, Martin Hellweg is a passionate musician.