Piazza.ch gets a new managing director

Philippe Uhlmann will succeed Marcel Sennhauser as managing director of the classifieds portal Piazza.ch effective July 1, 2007.

Philippe Uhlmann will succeed Marcel Sennhauser as Managing Director of the classifieds portal Piazza.ch on July 1, 2007. 44-year-old Uhlmann will take over the management of Piazza.ch, according to a press release issued on Thursday. Uhlmann has the necessary experience in online marketing for the planned further expansion of the online platform. He is currently Account Director at Planetactive Zurich, an agency specializing in digital marketing, and was previously Sales Director at the online marketing company AdLink Internet Media and Head of Online Marketing at Tamedia.
Piazza.ch was launched in October 2005. With 320,000 unique clients per month, Piazza.ch is the leading classifieds portal in Switzerland and is one of the 20 most visited websites according to the WEMF NET audit.
The current Managing Director Marcel Sennhauser is leaving Tamedia at the end of June. Sennhauser, who was Head of Tamedia Online for many years before setting up Piazza.ch, decided at the end of 2006 to hand over his duties at Piazza.ch in mid-2007 and to complete an Executive MBA course alongside a new professional challenge.

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