NZZ Media Group reorganizes

In her new role as Head of Products, Monica Dell'Anna, the former Head of Business Media, will also assume responsibility for Product Development and Customer Experience, Business Development and Portfolio Management, as well as the additional businesses. In future, overall responsibility will be assumed for managing the marketing and sales topics of the core business. To this end, the new position of Head of Marketing and Sales will be created; the search for a suitable candidate has been initiated. In addition, Luzi Bernet, Editor-in-Chief of the NZZ on Sunday, was appointed to the Executive Board.

The management of the NZZ-As of January 1, 2019, the Executive Board of the Media Group will consist of Felix Graf (CEO and Head of Marketing and Sales a.i.), Jörg Schnyder (Head of Finance), Eric Gujer (Editor in Chief New Zurich Newspaper), Luzi Bernet (Editor-in-Chief NZZ on Sunday), Monica Dell'Anna (Head of Products), Andreas Bossecker (Head of Technology) and Petra Feigl-Fässler (Head of Human Resources).

In her new role as Head of Products, Monica Dell'Anna assumes responsibility for Product Development and Customer Experience, Business Development and Portfolio Management, as well as the Additional Businesses. She will also continue to be responsible for the Swiss Economic Forum/NZZ Conferences, the Zurich Film Festival as well as the business information platform Moneyhouse and the online platform for architecture and design Architonic. In her new role, Monica Dell'Anna will be responsible for the development and management of integrated offerings along the entire product portfolio and, in particular, for bringing the live formats closer to journalism.

Since March 2016, Monica Dell'Anna has headed the Business Media division of the NZZ-Media Group and is a member of the Executive Board. Prior to that, she was a member of the Group Executive Board of BKW as Head of the Market Division and held various management positions at Swisscom for ten years. The Italian-Swiss dual citizen started her career in research and as a consultant at McKinsey. An electrical engineer by training, Monica Dell'Anna holds a doctorate in Telecommunications Engineering from King's College in London.

"Monica Dell'Anna has successfully positioned the Business Media division for the future over the past three years. She has already led product development in several industries in the past and, as a doctor of engineering, also brings the necessary technical knowledge. With her many years of leadership and management experience, not least in the area of digital transformation, she is the ideal appointment," says Felix Graf, CEO NZZ Media Group.

The corporate units will also be realigned with a focus on the user and advertising markets. To this end, the new function of Head of Marketing and Sales will be created, which in the future will be responsible for managing all marketing and sales topics of the core business of the NZZ Media Group on an overarching basis and will be closely networked. The corresponding search has been initiated. On an interim basis, the area will be managed by Felix Graf.

As of January 1, 2019, Luzi Bernet will become a member of the Executive Board of the NZZ Media Group. Since October 1, 2017, Luzi Bernet has been Editor-in-Chief of the NZZ on Sunday. He studied general history, economic and social history, and general constitutional law at the University of Zurich. He began his journalistic career in 1990 as editor of the Zurichsee-Zeitung. From 1992 to 1994, he worked as a European correspondent in Brussels for various Swiss regional newspapers. In 1994 he returned to the Zurichsee-Zeitung and was elected editor-in-chief in 1998. In 2002, Luzi Bernet joined the founding team of the NZZ on Sundayof which he became deputy editor-in-chief in 2004. In 2010, he moved to the New Zurich Newspaperwhere he was head of news, head of the "Zurich Department" and deputy editor-in-chief.

Etienne Jornod, Chairman of the Board of Directors NZZ-Mediengruppe: "Luzi Bernet is an outstanding journalist and has excellent leadership qualities. He has made the unique success story of the 'NZZ am Sonntag consistently since taking over as editor-in-chief. I wish him much joy and success in his expanded duties as a member of the Executive Board."

With the new organizational structure, the NZZ-Mediengruppe takes account of future market dynamics and strengthens the representation of its key areas at management level.