Ueli Eckstein becomes COO of the AZ Medien Group
Following a proposal by the publisher and company management, the Board of Directors of the AZ Medien Group has appointed Ueli Eckstein as Chief Operating Officer, effective January 1, 2007. Eckstein will continue to serve as Head of Print Media and as Deputy CEO.
The Board of Directors of the AZ Medien Group has appointed Ueli Eckstein as Chief Operating Officer (COO) as of January 1, 2007 at the request of the publisher and company management. As Head of Print Media, Eckstein continues to be responsible for the AZ Medien Group's highest-revenue division and is deputy to the CEO. The AZ Medien Group has continuously developed into a multimedia company in recent years. At the same time, the strategic tasks to which the publisher and CEO, Peter Wanner, wants to devote more time are expanding. At the same time, he will relieve himself of the operational business, as AZ Medien announced on Monday.
As COO, Eckstein will be responsible for the Print Media, Cross Media Marketing, Print and Logistics, Electronic Media and the Corporate Communications/Projects and Human Resources departments. The editor-in-chief of Aargauer Zeitung and Finance/Controlling remain the responsibility of the publisher.
Eckstein has been with the AZ Medien Group for ten years. In 1997, he joined the Aargauer Zeitung from the SonntagsZeitung as publishing director, where he significantly developed the reader market and advertising market areas. In 2001, he was appointed Deputy CEO and has since taken on numerous other management tasks.
As COO, Eckstein will be responsible for the Print Media, Cross Media Marketing, Print and Logistics, Electronic Media and the Corporate Communications/Projects and Human Resources departments. The editor-in-chief of Aargauer Zeitung and Finance/Controlling remain the responsibility of the publisher.
Eckstein has been with the AZ Medien Group for ten years. In 1997, he joined the Aargauer Zeitung from the SonntagsZeitung as publishing director, where he significantly developed the reader market and advertising market areas. In 2001, he was appointed Deputy CEO and has since taken on numerous other management tasks.
