NZZ: Jörg Schnyder, Jürg Weber and Hans-Peter Klauser new members of the Executive Board
Jörg Schnyder, Jürg Weber, and Hans-Peter Klauser have been appointed as new members of the NZZ Group’s executive board. They will assume their positions effective March 1, 2009. Beat Lauber will be pursuing a new career path and leaving the NZZ Group.
Jörg Schnyder, Jürg Weber and Hans-Peter Klauser have been appointed as new members of the NZZ Group Management Board. They will take up their positions on March 1, 2009, as the Zurich-based media company announced on Friday evening.
Jörg Schnyder, previously CFO of LZ Medien Holding, will become CFO of the NZZ Group. Jürg Weber, Managing Director of Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG, will be responsible for the media in Central Switzerland and Hans-Peter Klauser, General Manager of Tagblatt Medien, for the media in Eastern Switzerland. With Weber and Klauser, the regional media companies combined in FPH Freie Presse Holding will be directly represented on the NZZ Group's management board, according to the statement.
Beat Lauber, until now Managing Director of FPH, has decided to change his career direction and leave the NZZ Group. Until his departure at the end of January 2010 at the latest, he will take over projects of the NZZ Group as part of the realignment and support their implementation.
It has been known for some time that the new management team also includes NZZ Editor-in-Chief Markus Spillmann as Head of Journalism NZZ and Daniel Hofer. Hofer is Head of Publishing Activities Zurich with organizational integration of Zürich Landmedien. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of LZ Medien Holding, Hans Kaufmann, will step down at the end of his statutory term of office at the Annual General Meeting in May 2009. The current Delegate of the Board of Directors of LZ Medien Holding, Erwin Bachmann, will be proposed to the shareholders as his successor.
Jörg Schnyder, previously CFO of LZ Medien Holding, will become CFO of the NZZ Group. Jürg Weber, Managing Director of Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG, will be responsible for the media in Central Switzerland and Hans-Peter Klauser, General Manager of Tagblatt Medien, for the media in Eastern Switzerland. With Weber and Klauser, the regional media companies combined in FPH Freie Presse Holding will be directly represented on the NZZ Group's management board, according to the statement.
Beat Lauber, until now Managing Director of FPH, has decided to change his career direction and leave the NZZ Group. Until his departure at the end of January 2010 at the latest, he will take over projects of the NZZ Group as part of the realignment and support their implementation.
It has been known for some time that the new management team also includes NZZ Editor-in-Chief Markus Spillmann as Head of Journalism NZZ and Daniel Hofer. Hofer is Head of Publishing Activities Zurich with organizational integration of Zürich Landmedien. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of LZ Medien Holding, Hans Kaufmann, will step down at the end of his statutory term of office at the Annual General Meeting in May 2009. The current Delegate of the Board of Directors of LZ Medien Holding, Erwin Bachmann, will be proposed to the shareholders as his successor.
