New partner at IRF Communications
IRF Communications has welcomed Jürg Stähelin as a new partner. Effective March 1, 2011, he will join the team, which has established itself in providing PR support for capital market transactions and crisis situations, as well as in financial reporting and media relations. Stähelin will strengthen IRF Communications in all areas of corporate communications.
Jürg Stähelin will advise companies, associations and individuals on all aspects of strategic and operational communication and brand management. The business economist worked for over 15 years as a communications/marketing manager in the financial sector. In the last four years, he was responsible for communications at the listed Vontobel Group. Prior to that, he worked for ten years for the private banking group Julius Baer in various management positions in communications and marketing, most recently as Head of Corporate Communications. From 1993 to 1996 he was a consultant for a communications agency in Zurich. Jürg Stähelin studied business administration at the University of Zurich and completed an Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School in Pennsylvania (USA) in 2006.
From April 2011, Jürg Stähelin will also be working part-time as Managing Director of the Swiss Structured Products Association (SSPA), as detailed in an IRF press release. The SSPA promotes and represents the common interests of issuers of structured products.
