Michael Hermann new Managing Director of IDG Switzerland
Michael Hermann, former advertising director at *Weltwoche*, will become the new managing director of the media company IDG Communications—which publishes *PCtipp* and *Computerworld*—effective March 3, 2008. Hermann previously served as head of marketing and sales at Engeli & Partner Verlag.
Former Weltwoche advertising manager Michael Hermann will become the new managing director of the media company IDG Communications on March 3, 2008. He succeeds Gebhard Osterwalder, who is retiring in the middle of the year. Osterwalder will, however, remain at the company's disposal as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors until September 30, 2008. The 39-year-old Michael Hermann was previously Head of Marketing and Sales at Engeli & Partner Verlag. He can look back on many years of experience in the media industry, as IDG announced. After holding various positions within Publigroupe, at Travel Inside, NZZ and Berner Zeitung, he worked for the former Jean Frey as advertising manager for Weltwoche, among others. He left there in the summer of 2006.
IDG Communications is a subsidiary of the IDG International Data Group and publishes the titles PCtipp and Computerworld in Switzerland.
IDG Communications is a subsidiary of the IDG International Data Group and publishes the titles PCtipp and Computerworld in Switzerland.
