Cash changes leadership

With immediate effect, the business and finance platform Cash will be headed by Daniel Hügli as Editor-in-Chief and André Michel as Managing Director. The previous editor-in-chief Rüdi Steiner is taking a sabbatical.
André Michel and Daniel Hügli are now responsible for Cash. This was announced by the media group Ringier on Thursday. Under their leadership, Cash.ch is to further expand its market leadership in the area of business and financial information, continuously advance its growth strategy and expand its current portfolio of online portal, TV broadcasts, WebTV and mobile applications with "innovative digital offerings," the press release emphasizes. The current editor-in-chief of Cash, Rüdi Steiner, has decided to take a sabbatical, according to Ringier.

Daniel Hügli, 44, holds a doctorate in English and German and has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Cash Daily, or Cash, since its launch in September 2006. Prior to that, he was head of the "Finance" department at Handelszeitung for two years and editor at the news agency Bloomberg News from 1999 to 2004. In addition to his role as Editor-in-Chief, Hügli will continue to host the business program Cash TV on SF2 once a month.

51-year-old André Michel has been Head of Business Development and Financial Products at cash since July 2006. Prior to that, he had held various positions at cash since 1998, including deputy editor-in-chief and head of the Invest department. An economist and financial scientist, he was a founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Borsalino.ch and spent 12 years as Head of the Economics Department at the Berner Zeitung. As Cash's new managing director, he bears overall responsibility for the platform's operations and strategic direction.
Cash.ch occupies the top position in the use of business-relevant information and, according to Net Metrix, recorded an average of 2.63 million visits per month with 332,000 unique clients over the last three months.