Wirz Group: Geri Aebi joins the Board of Directors

Geri Aebi, who chaired Wirz Group Management for over eight years and has successfully led it as CEO since 2010, will relinquish his position as CEO Group with effect from the Annual General Meeting at the end of April 2016. He will now become Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wirz Partner Holding and take over the management of Wirz Services from Michael Waeber, who has left the Wirz Group as CFO.

At the same time, Switzerland's largest owner-managed communications group was able to expand its round of majority owners by three people, thus further securing the long-term independence of the Wirz Group. In addition to Geri Aebi and the existing Thomas Städeli (CEO Wirz Werbung) and Urs Binggeli (CEO Wirz Corporate), new co-owners have now taken over corresponding capital shares: Petra Dreyfus, has been with Wirz Werbung for over ten years and has been Managing Director since 2010, Livio Dainese, Executive Creative Director since the beginning of 2014 and newly CCO and thus Co-Head of Wirz Werbung since March, andJörg Bewersdorff, joined Wirz Wietlisbach Dialog in 2013 and became the new CEO at the beginning of the year.

The now six co-owners together hold the majority of the capital of the 140-strong Wirz Group, which has been wholly owned by the Swiss management and the Board of Directors since the MBO in 2005.

Geri Aebi comments: "With this step, we are ensuring that the owner-managed Wirz Group, which has been successful for many years, will continue to develop positively - led by strong personalities who are both operationally active for their customers and entrepreneurially responsible for the entire Group."