Reto Kormann is SBB's new media spokesman in Berne
Change in leadership at SBB’s media office in Bern: Effective June 1, 2009, Reto Kormann will serve as SBB’s corporate spokesperson for German-speaking Switzerland. Kormann succeeds Roland Binz, who served as spokesperson for over eight years.
Change at the SBB media office in Berne: Reto Kormann will be the SBB company spokesman for German-speaking Switzerland from June 1, 2009. Kormann will take over from Roland Binz, who is going into business for himself after more than eight years as spokesman. According to a press release issued on Tuesday, 43-year-old Kormann from Berne knows SBB very well: he completed his apprenticeship with SBB in the early 1980s and has worked for the company ever since - with the exception of a detour to the federal government in 2002/2003.
As a trained SBB operations dispatcher and qualified PR consultant, Kormann has in-depth knowledge of the railroad world and communications. He is also very familiar with the job of SBB press spokesman: Kormann worked as a company spokesman for five years back in the 1990s. In recent years, he has also worked regularly in the on-call organization of the media office. Reto Kormann is married and has two children. He lives with his family near Berne.
Roland Binz is leaving SBB at the end of May. He is moving to the private sector, where he will work as an independent communications consultant with his own office in Winterthur. The SBB media spokesperson team will in future consist of Reto Kormann and Jean-Louis Scherz (Berne), Roman Marti and Daniele Pallecchi (Zurich), Frédéric Revaz and Jean-Philippe Schmidt (Lausanne) and Alessandro Malfanti (Ticino). The SBB press officer is Danni Härry.
As a trained SBB operations dispatcher and qualified PR consultant, Kormann has in-depth knowledge of the railroad world and communications. He is also very familiar with the job of SBB press spokesman: Kormann worked as a company spokesman for five years back in the 1990s. In recent years, he has also worked regularly in the on-call organization of the media office. Reto Kormann is married and has two children. He lives with his family near Berne.
Roland Binz is leaving SBB at the end of May. He is moving to the private sector, where he will work as an independent communications consultant with his own office in Winterthur. The SBB media spokesperson team will in future consist of Reto Kormann and Jean-Louis Scherz (Berne), Roman Marti and Daniele Pallecchi (Zurich), Frédéric Revaz and Jean-Philippe Schmidt (Lausanne) and Alessandro Malfanti (Ticino). The SBB press officer is Danni Härry.
