Wolfhart Hauser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wolfhart Hauser

businessperson

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1949

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: entrepreneur, inventor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Wolfhart Gunnar Hauser (born 5 December 1949) is a German businessman, the executive chairman of FirstGroup, and was the chief executive of Intertek, a British multinational inspection, product testing and certification company, from 2005 to 2015. Hauser has a master's degree in medicine from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a doctorate from Technical University Munich.Hauser wrote his dissertation on the prevention of ski injuries, and went on to develop a ski binding that was certified by international quality organisations - his ski binding remains an ISO standard. Hauser was the chief executive of Intertek from March 2005 to 16 May 2015, and a non-executive director at Logica since 1 January 2007.In July 2016, Hauser became the chairman of FirstGroup.In June 2019, following 3 years of poor performance due to his pursuit of faulty strategies at FirstGroup (namely investments in rail) the top investors in the company, led by Coast Capital, successfully ousted Hauser from the board.