Heinz Landau

Heinz Landau is a seasoned business leader who has gained valuable working and leadership experience on three different continents. During his tenure as Chairman and CEO of Merck Ltd., Thailand, the company consistently achieved high employee engagement and high customer engagement and loyalty scores. Under his leadership, the company recorded in 16 years 13 times profitable double digit sales growth with a consistently high ROI. He made Merck Thailand the gold standard of the Merck Group worldwide in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) through the partnership that he had initiated with the Raks Thai Foundation / CARE Thailand and several employee and customer volunteering projects.

Heinz considers it the highlight of his career when, in 2009, he received on behalf of Merck Thailand the CSR Leadership Excellence Award at the Global CSR Summit in Singapore. Merck Thailand won this top honour award against blue chip companies from all over Asia and the U.S. The CSR Leadership Award is an award given to the company who has contributed to the promotion of all aspects of CSR, including the environment, sustainability, community partnerships and poverty alienation. Merck Thailand received the CSR Leadership Award in honour and recognition of fully integrating CSR into Merck Thailand’s business philosophy and strategy which very much reflects Heinz’s leadership philosophy.

It proves that through a dedicated 4 stakeholders approach, developed, implemented and lived under Heinz’ leadership, outstanding results for all stakeholders (employees, customers, shareholders, society) can be achieved.