Sven Schneider, born 1966, began his professional career 1995 at Linde AG in the finance department. From 2000 to 2019, he held leading positions at Linde AG including Head of Corporate Finance and Group Treasurer, before taking over the interim function of the CFO in 2016. In 2017 he was appointed member of the Executive Board and CFO. In addition he served as Labor Director and Spokesman of the Executive Board as of 2019.
In 2019 he was appointed member of the Executive Board of Infineon Technologies AG, where he has been CFO responsible for Accounting & Reporting, Financial Controlling, Financial Planning, Investor Relations, Tax, Treasury, Audit, Compliance and Risk Management since then.
Schneider holds a doctorate in business administration. After completing a banking apprenticeship, he studied business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) at the Universities of Regensburg, Nantes (France) and Trier. Subsequently, he received his doctorate in business administration from the University of Trier.