Ringier: Change in Board of Directors and Management
Robin Lingg, son of Evelyn Lingg-Ringier, will join the management team effective May 1, 2013, as Head of Business Development, moving from the Board of Directors of Ringier Holding. Claudio Cisullo has been newly appointed to the Board of Directors.
Robin William Lingg has been a member of the Board of Directors at Ringier since July 2011. As of May 1, 2013, he will become Head of Business Development at Ringier and in this role will be responsible for the development of Ringier's new markets across the Group, the media group wrote in a statement on Thursday. Robin Lingg will report directly to Ringier CEO Marc Walder.
Lingg studied languages, economics and cultural area studies at the University of Passau in Germany and has worked for the international pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim in Ingelheim and Mexico since 2006. Since November 2011, he has been responsible for the Mexico and Central America market as Head of Marketing for cardio and diabetes medicines.
Claudio Cisullo joins Ringier as a new member of the Board of Directors. He is the owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CC Trust Group, a family office and consulting company based in Pfäffikon SZ. His best-known subsidiaries included Panatronic, a service and trading company in the IT industry.
Claudio Cisullo has already held various directorships, including as a member of the Board of Directors of the Sauber F1 Team from 2009 to 2011 and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marquard Media from 2009 to June 2012. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Swisscom subsidiary Swisscom IT Services, Chairman of the UBS Industrialization Advisory Board and Chairman of the Business Advisory Board of the Laureus Foundation Switzerland.
