Scholz & Friends Switzerland plans succession at the top of the agency
Scholz & Friends Switzerland has appointed Martin Samsel as managing director, effective June 1, 2012. This move also marks the start of a planned leadership transition at the agency, set to take place on October 1, 2012: Martin Samsel will succeed CEO Wolfgang Steinhaus at that time.
Martin Samsel moved from Jung von Matt/Limmat to Scholz & Friends Zurich on January 1, 2012. The communications graduate held management positions there for more than eight years, becoming a member of the Executive Board in January 2009. He was responsible for the management of clients such as Swisscom, Bank Julius Bär and Vögele Shoes. Prior to this, Samsel worked for McCann-Erickson in Switzerland from 1999 to 2003. At the beginning of his career, he gained several years of international key account experience at Publicis Munich and Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt.
Wolfgang Steinhaus has managed Scholz & Friends Switzerland since October 2009. Under his leadership, clients such as Credit Suisse, Emmi, Oakley, Sunrise and Opel have been acquired, the agency said in a statement. Steinhaus has been with Scholz & Friends since 2003 and headed Scholz & Friends Hamburg for five years before moving to Switzerland.
Scholz & Friends Switzerland was founded in 2003 and is part of the international Scholz & Friends Group. The agency currently has 65 employees.
