Three new board members for the Crisis Communication Association
With Claudia Jenni, Eckhard Baschek and Roger Huber, the Association for Crisis Communication VKK has elected three new board members. They succeed Patrick Suppiger, Bernhard Schneider and Manuela Höllinger. It was an active year for the association: The demand for support in crisis situations and for prevention training remains high.
With Claudia Jenni, an experienced communications expert strengthens the board, with Eckhard Baschek a journalist is represented for the first time, and with Roger Huber, the founding president makes a comeback. For the coming months, the VKK board has resolved to strengthen the exchange among members and to debate current incidents, to increase the footprint in social media and to enter into further partnerships such as with the Leadership Campus of the Swiss Armed Forces last year. "As a center of excellence for crisis communication and reputation management, we promote exchange, networking and training. The new board members will make an important contribution to this," says VKK President Markus Baumgartner.
Claudia Jenni worked for Credit Suisse from 1994 to 2011 as PR/Media Officer and Project Manager in sports sponsoring, then for around four years as Public Relations Officer for Urban Development in the City of Winterthur and for three years as Media Spokesperson for Sanitas Health Insurance. Since 2017, she has been running the agency Kommunikationsatelier in Zurich with her business partner Christina Lamprecht, with crisis communication forming a large part of her strategic and operational work. Claudia Jenni holds a Master's degree in Communication Management & Leadership from ZHAW, is a Certified PR & Communication Expert SAQ and a certified board member.
Eckhard Baschek started his career in 1984 at the business editorial department of the Eastern Switzerland. From 1986 to 1994, he was media spokesman for the Swiss Red Cross in St. Gallen. He then worked as a freelance journalist for Finance and economy, St. Galler Tagblatt and Weltwochebefore working as an editor for Swiss Insurance and Swiss Bank. From 1994 to 2008, he became editor at the Handelszeitungto which he returned in 2016 as Co-Head of the Inserts Department. In between, he worked for CSC Switzerland, Infel, K-Money and Autentio. Eckhard Baschek studied international relations at HSG St. Gallen and completed his diploma professional training as a journalist at the St. Gallen School of Journalism. He was a founding member of VKK in 2009.
After completing his commercial training, Roger Huber worked for the St. Galler Tagblatt and as business editor for the daily newspaper Eastern Switzerland active. He then worked for Switzerland's first private television station "European Business Channel" as a producer, and after its bankruptcy he moved to the Finance and economy. From 1992 to 1997 he was a journalist at Cash/ Cash-TV and Development Manager for Ringier in Eastern Europe. He then founded Huber Media Consulting. In 2009, he was the founding president of the VKK. In 2021, together with two other people, he additionally founded the journalism platform Inside-justiz.ch, of which he is editor-in-chief.
