Matthias Altendorf

Founder & Owner - Bionic Leadership, Former President / CEO - Endress+Hauser Group

Basel Metropolitan Area

About

After nearly four decades in industrial technology, including a decade as CEO and board leadership at one of the world’s leading family-owned companies, I have stepped into a new chapter. Today, I focus on what I am most passionate about: board leadership, executive development, and strategy consulting, with a particular focus on family businesses. I bring firsthand experience navigating the unique dynamics of long-term ownership, generational transitions, and building organizations that balance innovation with continuity. I help companies grow and evolve across four critical dimensions: • Innovation - turning new ideas into lasting competitive advantage • Globalization - expanding with purpose and cultural intelligence • Cultural Development - shaping the values and behaviors that make organizations thrive • Transgenerational Management — securing leadership continuity and family business legacy across generations As the Founder of Bionic Leadership, I combine principles from nature, technology, and human-centered management to help leaders and organizations grow in ways that are resilient, sustainable, and deeply human. If you are a family business, board, or executive team looking to strengthen leadership, sharpen strategy, or navigate transformation, I would love to connect.

Experience

  • COLTENE Group (Altstätten, St Gallen, Switzerland · Hybrid)
    • Chairman of the Board
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Member of The Supervisory Board
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Founder & Owner at Bionic Leadership
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    The concept of Bionic Leadership is an evolutionary approach that combines principles of nature, advancements from technology, and a focus on the human being as the central element. Bionics is the combination of biology and technology, with the aim of transferring natural principles to technology in order to develop innovative products with enhanced functionalities. Bionic Leadership applies evolutionary principles to modern management, extending to evolutionary economics and economic bionics. Management, derived from the Latin word “mansionem agere”, is the process of effectively achieving goals in a social system, whether it be a company, an association, or any other kind of man-made organization. Join us in exploring the fusion of nature-inspired strategies, technologies and effective leadership in shaping organizational excellence. www.bionic-leadership.com [email protected]

  • Member of The Supervisory Board at Ameropa
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Member of The Supervisory Board at Kistler Group
    Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Endress+Hauser Group (25 yrs 9 mos)
    • President of the Supervisory Board
      Jan 2024 - Apr 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Chief Executive Officer
      Jan 2014 - Jan 2024 · 10 yrs 1 mo

      We are the People for Process Automation, and I’m one of more than 14000 employees who help and support others in becoming better in what they are doing for their customers and the world. Through commitment, excellence, friendliness, sustainability and a human centric approach, we make this world a better place by protecting people, the environment, equipment, saving resources, improve efficiency and quality through the capabilities of humans, products and technology in the field of industrial automation for the process industries.

    • Member of the Management Board
      Aug 2000 - Dec 2013 · 13 yrs 5 mos

      Innovation, Marketing, Strategy