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Dr. Sven Schneider

  • Chief Financial Officer, member of the Management Board, IFXD.XC since 2019-05src

Ex-Linde CFO through the Praxair merger; Infineon CFO since May 2019

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design6059% performance-conditioned · roic, fcf, margin, relative tsr, revenue, strategic · 88.3% for · 0.20% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
In the role
7 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
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Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 6

  • He is the only board member on the higher post-four-year cap (EUR 5.3m), and his target total pay was set at EUR 2.8m against EUR 2.3m for other full board memberssrc
  • FY2025 STI paid at 75.8% of target, the same group scorecard as the CEO: Segment Result Margin 17.5% against a 24.0% target, RoCE 9.3% against 13.5%src
  • Took an outside listed-company board seat (Holcim, with its audit committee) in 2025 while serving as CFOsrc
  • No individual shareholding is disclosed, and the remuneration report does not say whether he meets the 100%-of-salary ownership guideline. He held 115,063 unvested virtual performance shares on 2025-09-30src
  • Directors' dealings in the last 12 months were not added up because the notices are blocked from this environment. Search results show only an STI share transfer and a sale to cover tax and fees in December 2025src
  • The 2024 Management Board pay system passed with only 56.68% at the 2025 AGM; the revised system passed with 87.69% in February 2026src

Career

  1. 2019 – now
    Infineon Technologiessrc
    Member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer
    From 2019-05-01, succeeding Dominik Asam (WS-cfo19). Also runs compliance, audit, risk management and investor relations
  2. 2019 – 2019
    Linde AGsrc
    Spokesman of the Executive Board, Chief Financial Officer and Labor Director
    Linde AG was by then the German subsidiary of Linde plc after the Praxair merger
  3. 2017 – 2019
    Linde AGsrc
    Member of the Executive Board (CFO)
    Signed as Linde AG CFO the 2018-10-19 amendment of the Americas divestiture agreement with Messer (LIN-EX24-2018)
  4. 2016 – 2017
    Linde AGsrc
    Interim CFO
    From September 2016, after CFO Georg Denoke left (WS-linde). Signed as CFO in December 2016 (F425-2016-12) and presented the FY2016 results as CFO in March 2017 (F425-2017-03)
  5. 2011 – 2016
    Linde AGsrc
    Group Treasurer
  6. 2005 – 2011
    Linde AGsrc
    Head of Corporate Finance
  7. 1995 – 2005
    Linde AGsrc
    Finance department; leading positions from 2000
    The bio gives no titles for 1995-2005

Not located: Linde titles for 1995-2005 are not given in any source read; only 'finance department' from 1995 and 'leading positions' from 2000

Achievements

  • 24 years at Linde AG: Head of Corporate Finance, then Group Treasurer, then CFO (interim from 2016, on the Executive Board from 2017), and finally Spokesman of the Executive Boardsrc
  • Was Linde's CFO from the start of the Praxair merger process: he co-signed the December 2016 message on the term sheet with Praxair as CFOsrc
  • Signed for Linde AG, as CFO, the October 2018 amendment of the agreement under which Linde and Praxair sold Americas businesses to Messer Industriessrc
  • Joined Infineon as CFO weeks before the June 2019 Cypress Semiconductor deal, which the Management Board's message called the largest in Infineon's history; he co-signed that messagesrc
  • FY2025 adjusted free cash flow of EUR 1,803m met the EUR 1,794m STI target (100.5%), the only one of the three STI measures to reach targetsrc
  • Contract extended a year early, to April 2032, alongside the CEO'ssrc

Education

  • University of Trier, Doctorate Business administrationsrc
  • Universities of Regensburg, Nantes (France) and Trier, Diplom-Kaufmann Business administrationsrc

Background

  • Family None of the sources read (FY2025 annual report board section, remuneration reports, company bio) has a family-relationship statement; German reporting does not require one. None disclosedsrc
  • Other German, born in Berlin. Did a banking apprenticeship before universitysrc
  • Boards Director and Audit Committee member of Holcim AG (listed, Switzerland), elected in 2025src
  • Boards Group mandates: Supervisory Board of Infineon Technologies Austria AG; boards of the Infineon subsidiaries in China, Japan, Asia Pacific (Singapore) and the Americassrc
  • Other Defined-contribution pension: the company pays EUR 253,200 a year. The IFRS obligation stood at EUR 1.39m on 2025-09-30src
  • Other His discharge (Entlastung) passed with 99.47% at the February 2026 AGMsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

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  1. Data connector eu_data filings_markdown_search / filings_markdown_retrieve(filing_id=8775931): Infineon Annual financial report 2024/2025 (released 2025-11-27), 'The Management Board' bios · 2026-09-24
  2. Filing Infineon Technologies AG Remuneration Report 2025 (fiscal year 1 Oct 2024 - 30 Sep 2025), audited by Deloitte · 2025-11-27
  3. Filing Infineon Technologies AG Remuneration Report 2024 (fiscal year 1 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2024) · 2024-11-26
  4. Filing Infineon AGM 2026 voting results overview (Items 3.3, 8, 9) · 2026-02-19
  5. Filing Infineon press release INFXX202511.021e, Q4 and FY2025 results with Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss · 2025-11-12
  6. Filing Infineon press release 'Infineon to extend contracts of CEO Jochen Hanebeck and CFO Dr. Sven Schneider ahead of schedule' · 2026-02-19
  7. Filing Infineon leadership page 'Dr. Sven Schneider' (company bio with dated Linde positions and mandates) · 2026-09-24
  8. Filing Linde AG Form 425 (0000950157-16-002620): message to employees signed 'Aldo Belloni CEO, Sven Schneider CFO' · 2016-12-22
  9. Filing Linde AG Form 425 (0000950157-17-000348): transcript of the FY2016 Linde AG earnings call, 2017-03-09, Schneider presenting as CFO · 2017-03-10
  10. Filing Linde plc 10-Q Q3 2018, Ex. 2.4: Second Amendment of the Americas Sale and Purchase Agreement with Messer Industries (0001707925-18-000033) · 2018-10-19
  11. Filing Cypress Semiconductor 8-K Ex. 99.1, 'Message from the Management Board of Infineon Technologies' to Cypress employees (0001104659-19-033483) · 2019-06-03
  12. Web search result WebSearch: Sven Schneider named CFO of Linde (summary of CHEManager: interim CFO from September 2016 after Georg Denoke left, appointed to the Executive Board about half a year later; 'the 50-year-old'); page not fetched · 2026-09-24
  13. Web search result WebSearch: Infineon appoints Sven Schneider CFO 2019 (summary: announced 2019-03-14, effective 2019-05-01, initial three-year contract, succeeding Dominik Asam who left for Airbus); page not fetched · 2026-09-24
  14. Web search result WebSearch: Sven Schneider Holcim board (summary of Holcim's board page: elected to the Holcim Board of Directors in 2025); page not fetched · 2026-09-24
  15. Web search result WebSearch: Infineon directors' dealings Sven Schneider (result titles: STI share transfer and sale 'to cover tax and fees', published December 2025); notices not fetched (egress-blocked) · 2026-09-24