MCH Group: Florian Faber to succeed Jean-Marc Devaud
The Board of Directors of MCH Group has appointed Florian Faber, Managing Director of Expomobilia in Effretikon, as a member of the Executive Board and CEO of the Live Marketing Solutions division. He will take over the responsibilities of Jean-Marc Devaud effective immediately, as Devaud has decided to leave the MCH Group for personal reasons and pursue a new career path.
"In Florian Faber, we are delighted to have an extremely competent internal successor who has worked with Jean-Marc Devaud for many years and who will continue to pursue the path taken by the Live Marketing Solutions Division", emphasizes Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard, CEO a.i. of the MCH Group, in a press release issued on Friday. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Ulrich Vischer, emphasizes: "The Board of Directors and the Executive Board very much regret Jean-Marc Devaud's decision. The MCH Group thanks Jean-Marc Devaud for his great commitment and wishes him every success in his future career."
Florian Faber holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Zurich. He was responsible for trade fair participations in Europe at the car manufacturer Nissan before joining the MCH company Expomobilia as New Business Manager in 2009, where he took over the role of Head of Sales as a member of the Executive Board in 2011. In summer 2014, he was appointed Managing Director of Expomobilia, which was renamed MCH Live Marketing Solutions in November 2018. As Managing Director of Expomobilia, Florian Faber has played a key role in the successful development and expansion of the exhibition, event and pavilion construction division in recent years and was involved in the strategic repositioning of the Live Marketing Solutions division. He was born in 1979, is a German citizen and lives with his family in Winterberg (ZH).
Jean-Marc Devaud joined the MCH company Expomobilia in 2008 and was appointed a member of the Executive Board and CEO of the Live Marketing Solutions Division on January 1, 2009. In this function, he has intensively promoted the internationalization and expansion of the range of services in this business sector over the past ten years, in particular with the establishment of branches in Shanghai and Dubai, the acquisition of the American MC2 Group and the development of MCH Global as a full-service agency for experience marketing.
