Christophe Roulet joins the Rochat & Partners team

Rochat & Partners is expanding its Geneva team with Christophe Roulet. The business press specialist was previously editor-in-chief of the financial newspaper Agefi. The PR agency, which is based in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich, is also strengthening its team with the formation of a group of external consultants. Martine Brunschwig Graf (former President of Geneva's Government Council and National Councillor), Anne Biéler (Head of Communications for the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie), Jean-Nicolas Thalmann (former Director of Geneva's Office de Promotion Industrielle), Jean-Pierre Jobin (Director Emeritus of Geneva Airport) and Jean-Philippe Rapp (television journalist) will support the PR company with special mandates. Brunschwig Graf will be responsible for public affairs, Thalmann for industry and nanotechnologies, Jobin for aviation and tourism and Rapp for the development of radio and TV training programs for company managers at Rochat & Partners. As the 14-strong PR agency reports in a press release, it recorded a 15 percent increase in fees in 2005 compared to the previous year. In addition, its new clients include start-ups and companies in French-speaking Switzerland, as well as foreign investment funds and two pan-European mandates, namely for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Pfizer.