Executive Board

Nico Nusmeier has a Master of Science in Econometrics from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and in Strategy and Leadership from London Business School. He launched his career in 1985 as a management trainee at Heineken, with spells in the Netherlands, Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1988, he became packaging manager at Zoeterwoude in the Netherlands, Europe's largest brewery. Between 1990 and 1996, Nusmeier held a number of different management positions within the Heineken Group in Italy and the Bahamas. In 1996, he was appointed director of Heineken Global Procurement, and he returned to Heineken's Zoeterwoude brewery as operations manager from 1997 to 2001. After a period as president of Grupa Zywiec S.A. in Warsaw, he assumed responsibility for the Central and Eastern European markets as president of Heineken Central and Eastern Europe from 2005 to 2012 and was also a member of Heineken's executive committee. From 2013, he served as CEO of Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company in Dubai. From 2014 onwards, Nusmeier made his extensive expertise in the beverages sector available to the Schörghuber Group as a member of the foundation board. In 2016, he was named CEO of Can-Pack S.A. in Krakow, Poland. He has been chairman of the executive board of the Schörghuber Corporate Group since 1 July 2019.

After gaining her general qualification for university entrance in Straubing, Schörghuber completed a vocational training program as a hotel management specialist at the School of Hotel Management in Altötting. Prior to her marriage to the Munich businessman Stefan Schörghuber, she worked in Germany, Switzerland and Bermuda. After her marriage, Schörghuber assumed numerous supervisory and management positions in the family’s private business ventures, which include Bavaria Parkgaragen as well as lift and cable car companies in Upper Bavaria. Following the sudden death of Stefan Schörghuber, she joined the foundation board of the Schörghuber Corporate Group as chairwomen at the end of 2008. She is also deputy chairwoman of the Group's executive board.

Florian Schörghuber was born in Munich in 1994 as the third child of the entrepreneurs Stefan and Alexandra Schörghuber. Following his graduation from the Bavarian International School, Haimhausen, in 2013, he earned a degree in International Business at the University of Roehampton, London. He went on to augment this with certification of further specialization in International Relations & Political Sciences from the EU Business School, Munich, in 2017. In 2018, he joined the family's central holding company, Blue Lion GmbH, as head of business development. He was appointed managing director of the company in 2020. In this role, he was responsible for the company' restructuring and the realignment of its private equity and venture capital strategy. He also co-launched the transformation process of its significant participation in Schörghuber Stiftung & Co Holding KG. On 1 July 2022, he joined the executive board of Schörghuber Stiftung & Co. Holding KG as co-CEO and also assumed operational responsibility with the aim of providing support for the resulting definition and implementation of a resilient, future-oriented corporate strategy with focus on sustainable and profitable growth for the holding company and for the individual business divisions.

After earning a degree in business administration at the University of Tübingen and working first at Price Waterhouse (1994-1999) and then at Knorr Capital Partner AG (1999-2001), Stefan Fischbach joined the Schörghuber Corporate Group in 2002, where he held a number of different management positions in the Hotels division. From 2006 to 2010, he was responsible for corporate auditing at the Group's holding company before returning to Arabella Hospitality as CFO and member of the board of directors. In this role, he helped guide the successful development of Hotels division and, in particular, its return to profitability. In 2018, Stefan Fischbach joined the commercial management team at the Paulaner Brewery Group, a joint venture between the Schörghuber Corporate Group (70 percent) and Heineken (30 percent). At the beginning of 2022, the Schörghuber family appointed him chief transformation officer as part of the Group's transformation process and on 1 July, he was appointed member of the executive board and chief financial officer of Schörghuber Stiftung & Co. Holding KG.