Managing Director Patrick Viert and Managing Partner Raffael Leu leave Vice Switzerland

Farewell after three years of collaboration: Managing Director Patrick Viert and Managing Partner Raffael Leu are leaving Vice Switzerland at the end of August 2018 after a successful start-up phase. Vice Switzerland was merged in February under the organizational holding Vice DACH, which represents the largest and strongest region within the Vice Group in Europe. Patrick Viert and Raffael Leu are leaving the company due to differences of opinion regarding the future direction of the company in Switzerland.

Patrick Viert, Managing Director Vice Switzerland, in a statement: "In a challenging market environment, we have been able to build a commercially successful company over the past three years, forge sustainable partnerships and celebrate important successes with the team. I look back on my time at Vice with pride and gratitude. We are seizing the moment to fill key positions in the coming months and prepare the company for the next phase of growth."

Raffael Leu, Managing Partner Virtue Switzerland: "With Virtue, we have achieved what so many media companies are currently trying to do: Establishing a successful creative agency that can win prestigious lead budgets and awards. After all the heart and soul we have invested, it is important to me to leave our clients, our talents and our partners in such a way that Virtue is ideally positioned to embark on a successful next phase."

Vice will provide information on the replacement of the positions and the new orientation of the Swiss location in the fall. Patrick Viert and Raffael Leu are leaving the company for an unknown destination.