SRG hires consultant for search for successor to Director General
The SRG Board of Directors has appointed a four-member nomination committee to search for a successor to Director General Armin Walpen. has appointed a four-member Nomination Committee. Martin E. Heuberger from Amrop Hever Global Executive Search is now to look for suitable candidates, as Sonntag writes. And Victor P. Schmid, partner at the communications and business consultancy firm Hirzel, Neef Schmid.
SRG does not want anyone over the age of 55 for the post of Director General or Director of Television and Radio German-speaking Switzerland. According to NZZ am Sonntag, SRG Chairman of the Board of Directors Jean-Bernard Münch says that they want a candidate to succeed SRG Director General Armin Walpen who can remain in office for at least seven years until the normal retirement age of 62. This also applies to the new post of Director of Radio and TV in German-speaking Switzerland.
