Sunrise: Corporate and marketing communications with new management

Sunrise's communications department has been headed by Natasja Sommer since 2010, the company wrote in a statement Monday. Effective immediately, Michael Burkhardt will be responsible for corporate communications as Director Corporate Communications. Corporate Communications now includes the areas of media and public affairs. Burkhardt has been with Sunrise since 1999 in various positions in the areas of communications, public affairs and regulatory. He holds a doctorate in engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and completed further studies in media relations and political communications at the ZHAW in Winterthur and the MAZ in Lucerne on corporate communications.

Natasja Sommer (pictured below) is the new Director of Marketing Communications. In this role, she is responsible for all product and market communications, internal communications and event management. Sommer has been with the company since 2010.

The previous Head of Marketing Communications, Priska Cavelti-Heger, decided to leave Sunrise in October after more than three years with the company. Under her leadership, the launch of the Sunrise Brands business had taken place at the beginning of the year. Priska Cavelti-Heger was also responsible for the further development of the Sunrise brand and played a decisive role in the relaunch of the brand this summer.