Post Auto with its own media office from July

The 35-year-old Valérie Gerl has been part of the Post Auto communications team for two years. She will take care of the concerns of French-speaking journalists with a workload of 50 percent. As a geographer with additional training in PR, she has worked in communications for almost ten years, including at BKW, SBB and Post Finance.

The 47-year-old Katharina Merkle will work 60 percent for Post Auto. Over the past twelve years, she has worked at the Bernese newspaper BZ, where she was first editor, then head of the Bern region department and finally deputy editor. Katharina Merkle will primarily look after the media in German-speaking Switzerland and be responsible for the production of the Post Auto newspaper.

The 41-year-old Monika Trost has spent the last four years managing projects in the field of sustainability and public-private partnerships at a consultancy firm. Prior to that, she hosted the program "Sternstunde Philosophie" on Swiss television, headed the management staff of the Federal Social Insurance Office and developed a human rights education project at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Monika Trost will be responsible for all media with a workload of 80 percent.

Change in the Head of Communication

There will be a change in the management of Post Auto Communication: The 40-year-old Simon Rimle will succeed the 43-year-old as of December 1, 2012. René Böhlen and becomes a member of the management of Post Auto. After completing his degree in business administration, Simon Rimle was Head of Marketing and Sales at the Brünig Railway (now Zentralbahn) for four years. For the past seven years, he has been Head of Communications and Marketing and a member of the Executive Board of SBB Real Estate. René Böhlen is becoming partly self-employed, but will continue to work part-time for Post Auto as Delegate Public & Government Affairs.