Tamedia: Christoph Brand becomes new Head of Digital

Christopf Brand succeeds Christoph Tonini, who will take over as Chairman of the Management Board in 2013. Brand can look back on a broad range of experience in the telecommunications and information technology sector in Switzerland and abroad, as Tamedia writes in a press release on Thursday. After studying economics at the University of Bern, he joined Swisscom in 1995 and took over the management of Bluewin, Switzerland's largest Internet provider at the time, in 1998, where he played a key role in its expansion. In 2002, the now 42-year-old moved to Swisscom, where he was most recently a member of the Group Executive Board as Chief Strategy Officer. In 2006, he took over the management of the telecommunications company Sunrise and implemented a successful growth strategy. In addition to his operational duties, he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Directories, Cinetrade, Swisscom Mobile and Micronas.

The Digital division includes all of Tamedia's commercial online activities such as the directory and service portal Search.ch, the job platforms Alpha.ch, Jobup.ch and Jobwinner.ch, the vehicle market Car4you.ch, the real estate portal Homegate.ch, the classifieds platform Piazza.ch as well as the dating site swissfriends and the participations such as Fashionfriends.ch, Jobsuchmaschine.ch, Olmero.ch, Renovero.ch and Zattoo.ch. Under the leadership of Christoph Brand, Tamedia's digital division is to be further expanded considerably.