New appointments at Handelszeitung
Marcel Speiser, 42, will become deputy editor-in-chief of the Handelszeitung. He will assume his position on September 1, 2015. The positions of head of the Specials department and head of the Swiss Business Network will also be filled by new appointees.
Speiser currently heads the corporate section of the Handelszeitung. He studied in Zurich, Cape Town and London, then completed his diploma training at the MAZ in Lucerne. Before joining Handelszeitung, he worked on the business editorial teams of Tages-Anzeiger, Blick and Aargauer Zeitung. Speiser succeeds Pascal Ihle, who is leaving the newspaper at his own request after nine years as Deputy Editor-in-Chief.
In the future, the Specials department will be headed by Norman Bandi, 40. He succeeds Markus Köchli, who led and shaped the department for 25 years. Köchli, 64, will continue to be associated with the newspaper as an author and consultant on a reduced workload.
At the Swiss Business Network (Handelszeitung.ch, Bilanz.ch and Finanzen.ch), current Deputy Editorial Director Mathias Ohanian, 33, will become the new Editorial Director as of June 1, 2015. He succeeds Stefan Eiselin, 47, who will move to the financial editorial department of Handelszeitung and focus on the Swiss banking center. Ohanian holds a degree in economics and worked for several years as an editor at the Financial Times Deutschland.
