New Group CEO at Swiss Post: Jürg Bucher is succeeded by Susanne Ruoff

With Susanne Ruoff, a manager with extensive experience in major international companies is taking over the management of Swiss Post. Thanks to her many years in management positions at IBM and most recently as CEO of BT Switzerland (British Telecom), she will be able to strengthen Swiss Post's Group management, particularly with her expertise in the digital world. Swiss Post said this in a press release on Tuesday.

Prior to BT (British Telecom), Susanne Ruoff held various management positions at IBM Switzerland in the areas of marketing, sales and services business. As head of the public administrations business unit, she was able to establish close contact with the federal government and the administration. At the end of her twenty-year tenure at IBM Switzerland, she was a member of the Executive Board and responsible for Global Technology Services.

In the coming years, customers will increasingly demand electronic services, Swiss Post added in its statement. Swiss Post intends to continue its strategy of linking the physical world of postal services with the electronic world in a targeted manner. With her competencies, Susanne Ruoff will actively support this change. In her activities in multinational companies, she has also gained broad experience with different cultures and mentalities, a factor that played an important role in her selection.

Susanne Ruoff holds a degree in Economics and an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Telecommunications from the University of Fribourg. She holds a Client Executive degree from INSEAD (France) and completed a continuing education course on "Corporate Governance in Executive Boards" at HSG St. Gallen.

Finally a woman at the top of the Post
Syndicom, the media and communications union, is pleased that the Board of Directors of Swiss Post has appointed Susanne Ruoff as the new head of the yellow giant. In view of the still far too great inequality - for example in the area of wages - between women and men in our country, it is pleased that a public company of such importance is finally being led by a woman, Syndicom said in a statement. The union sees this decision as an important signal in the right direction.