Sonova Holding AG announced that its board of directors nominates Lynn Dorsey Bleil as a new board member for election at the next Annual General Meeting in June 2016. The company also announces that John J. Zei will retire at the same time from the Board since he has reached the mandatory retirement age. Ms. Lynn Dorsey Bleil recently retired as senior partner (director) from McKinsey & Company in the US after more than 25 years of advising senior management and boards of leading healthcare companies on corporate and business unit strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and public policy across all segments of the healthcare value chain.

She is a Non-Executive Director at DST System since 2014 and Stericycle since 2015.