Goldbach Group expands management
The Board of Directors of the Goldbach Group has approved the appointment of Raoul Gerber as a member of the Executive Board. Gerber will officially join the Goldbach Group’s Executive Committee as Chief Commercial Officer effective January 1, 2015.
The 51-year-old is a proven industry expert. After studying literature and philosophy at the University of Geneva, he was drawn to RTN, one of Switzerland's first private radio stations, as a radio presenter and later as account manager. He was then jointly responsible for the commercialization of the first Swiss radio advertising window and for the launch of the local television station Léman Bleu. He then moved to Goldbach, where he held various management positions within the Group from 2002. As Head of Sales, he was a member of the management of the subsidiary Goldbach Media for ten years before being appointed to the extended management of the Goldbach Group as Director Austria & Switzerland in 2014. He now joins the Group Executive Board as a new member in the function of Chief Commercial Officer. The other members of the management, the Executive Committee, of Goldbach Group are: Michi Frank, CEO, Lukas Leuenberger, CFO, Klaus Nadler, CMO, and Roland Wittmann, CSO.
For Jens Alder, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Goldbach Group, this is a strategic and logical decision: "We are clearly committed to focusing on our core competence as a digital sales house, so it was only the last logical step to integrate the Chief Commercial Officer into the Executive Board.
"Raoul Gerber has always proven to be a brilliant strategist and visionary over the past twelve years, during which he played a key role in shaping the development of Goldbach Media as Head of Sales; his personality and many years of industry knowledge make him an ideal addition to the existing management team," says Michi Frank, CEO of Goldbach Group.
