Swisscom: Jürgen Galler becomes new Head of Strategy
The Board of Directors appointed Jürgen Galler as Swisscom's new Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Group Executive Board. He succeeds Daniel Ritz, who left the company at the end of January.
Until the start in the fall, the Strategy & Business Development division will be led by the current management, as Swisscom writes in a press release on Monday. Jürgen Galler holds a doctorate in economics and social sciences with a focus on business informatics and has worked for Google Switzerland in Zurich for five years. At Google Switzerland, he headed product management for Google Search and consumer products in Europe until 2009, then product management and engineering for YouTube in Europe and is currently responsible for market development activities in the emerging markets regions.
In his professional career, Galler has held various international management positions and has broad experience in the ICT sector, according to the statement. Among other things, he was involved as Managing Director in the development of IDS Scheer's Asian business in South Korea and Japan, a provider of consulting and software tools for business process management. He also worked in Japan for over three years before joining Bertelsmann in 2000 as Vice President Lycos Europe and Managing Director Webhosting & Communities. In this function, he worked in Germany and Spain.
Jürgen Galler is Italian with German as his mother tongue, married and lives in Küsnacht.
