Composition of the Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Composition
The Federal Council elects Swiss Post Ltd's Board of Directors every two years. On the reference date (31 December 2014), it had nine members. The Board of Directors is responsible for implementing the strategic goals, for submitting reports to the Federal Council on their attainment and for providing the latter with the information it needs for verification purposes. The Board of Directors is also governed by the rights and duties set out in the provisions of the Swiss Code of Obligations on the subject of corporate law.
Members do not have any business relationships with Swiss Post or its subsidiaries, nor have they been involved in an executive capacity in Swiss Post Group in the past four years. In accordance with the Postal Organization Act, employees have the right to appropriate representation on the Board of Directors. In 2014, this representation was once again provided by Susanne Blank and Michel Gobet.
After the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, members are listed in the order in which they took office.
Peter Hasler, Chairman of the Board of Directors |
Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1946, Switzerland, member since 2010, Dr. jur. Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration; Audit, Risk & Compliance; Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions Professional background: Directorships and foundation mandates; Member of various federal commissions; Vice-Chairman of the Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund (Suva); Director of the Swiss Employers Union; Director of Association of Swiss Engineering Employers ASM; Secretary of ASM; Corporate lawyer and Assistant to the Chairman of the Board of Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG (FFA); Assistant at the Zurich Guardianship Authority Key posts: Reka Swiss Travel Fund (Chairman of the Cooperative Society); SIZ Ltd, Schweizerisches Informatik-Zertifikat (Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
Philippe Milliet, Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors, 1963, Switzerland, member since 2010, degree in pharmacy, University of Lausanne; MBA, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne Committees: Audit, Risk & Compliance Professional background: Bobst Group (Member of Group Executive Committee, Head of Business Unit Sheet-Fed); Galenica AG (Head of Health Division, Member of the Corporate Executive Committee); Unicible (CEO); Galenica AG (responsible for distribution centers, responsible for operations and CEO of Galexis AG); Pharmatic AG (analyst/programmer and project manager); McKinsey (associate, project manager); Galenica Holding AG (analyst/programmer and Assistant to the Chairman of the Corporate Executive Committee) Key posts: None |
Susanne Blank, Member of the Board of Directors, Human Resources Representative |
Member of the Board of Directors, Human Resources representative, 1972, Switzerland, member since 2008, lic. rer. pol. Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration Professional background: seco, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Chief Editor for "Die Volkswirtschaft"; Travail.Suisse umbrella organization for employees (Head of Economic Policy and Member of the Executive Board); Federal Statistical Office (Audits of Swiss Consumer Price Index) Key posts: ewb, Energie Wasser Bern (Member of the Board of Directors) |
Adriano P. Vassalli, Member of the Board of Directors, Vice-Chairman |
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1954, Switzerland, member since 2010, federal diploma in auditing Committees: Audit, Risk & Compliance (Chair) Professional background: Studio di consulenza e di revisione (founder and owner); Arthur Andersen (founder and head of the Lugano and Berne branches, worldwide partner); Revisuisse AG (auditor and management consultant in Berne and founder of the Lugano branch) Key posts: PostFinance Ltd (Member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee (Chair)); Istituto di previdenza del Cantone Ticino (Member of the Board of Directors); Swiss Red Cross (member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Red Cross Cantonal Associations); Swiss Red Cross, Sottoceneri Section (Chairman) |
Michel Gobet, Member of the Board of Directors, Human Resources Representative |
Member of the Board of Directors, Human Resources representative,1954, Switzerland, member since 2010, lic. phil. hist. Committees: Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions Professional background: syndicom, media and communications trade union (Central Secretary); PTT-Union (Central Secretary and Vice-Secretary General); Archaeological Service of the Canton of Fribourg (Head of Archaeological Sites) Key posts: Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd (Member of the Board of Directors); UNI Global Union (Treasurer, Member of World Executive Committee, Member of European ICTS Steering Committee); gdz (Member of the Board of Directors) |
Marco Durrer, Member of the Board of Directors |
Member of the Board of Directors, 1952, Switzerland, member since 2009, Dr. ès sc. pol. (Relations internationales), MALD, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration (Chair) Professional background: Directorships; Valiant Privatbank AG, Berne (CEO and member of Executive Management Valiant Holding AG); Lombard, Odier, Darier, Hentsch & Cie, Geneva/Zurich (Group Management, Branch Manager Zurich); Deutsche Bank (Switzerland) SA, Geneva (Head of Sales and Trading); Schweizerische Kreditanstalt Lausanne / New York / Zurich (Assistant to Josef Ackermann / Investment Banking) Key posts: PostFinance Ltd (Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Organization, Nomination & Remuneration Committee (Chair)); Picard Angst Ltd (Member of the Board of Directors); Piguet Galland & Cie SA (Member of the Board of Directors); DGM Immobilien AG (Chairman of the Board of Directors); COMUNUS SICAV, Montreux (Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
Myriam Meyer, Member of the Board of Directors |
Member of the Board of Directors, 1962, Switzerland, member since 2014, Dr. sc. techn. Committees: Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions Professional background: Owner and Managing Director of mmtec; WIFAG-Polytype Holding AG (Group CEO); RUAG Aerospace (CEO); Roche (Roche Consumer Health Executive Committee Member); Swissair (Member of the Flight Operations Management Board); SR Technics (Vice President, Engineering) Key posts: Member of the Board of Directors, Repower AG; Member of the Board of Directors, SITA; Member of the Board of Directors, Bedag Informatik AG; Vice President of the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI); Foundation Board Member, Swisscontact; Member of the Advisory Committee on International Development Cooperation (part of theSDC); Member of the Industrial Advisory Board, ETH Zurich |
Andreas Schläpfer, Member of the Board of Directors, Vice-Chairman |
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1947, Switzerland, member since 2009, lic. oec. Univ. of St. Gallen Committees: Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions (Chair) Professional background: Nestlé (General Manager in France, Russia, Thailand/Indochina, Zimbabwe, and Global Business Head/Senior Vice-President for Children's Food); International Trade Centre UNCTAD/GATT (Marketing Consultant) Key posts: None |
Nadja Lang, Member of the Board of Directors |
Member of the Board of Directors, 1973, Switzerland, member since 2014 Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration Professional background: Managing Director of the Max Havelaar Foundation (Switzerland); Chair of the Global Account Management Steering Committee at Fairtrade International; European Marketing Manager, General Mills Europe SARL in London/Nyon; various (management) positions in brand management and the innovation department at The Coca-Cola Company, Alpine Division Key posts: Metron AG, Brugg (Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors); Chair Global Account Management Steering Committee at Fairtrade Labelling International (FLO) |
Kerstin Büchel, General Secretary |
General Secretary, 1970, Switzerland/Germany/Sweden, member since 2009, lic. rer. pol. Professional background: Valiant Privatbank AG (Head of Market Development and Sales Services); UBS AG Switzerland, Basel and Zurich, and UBS AG Italy, Rome (Junior Key People, product management, client advisory services, events, business development and strategic marketing, asset and liability management, international client reporting); Key posts: None |
Changes in the year under review
The General Meeting elected Myriam Meyer and Nadja Lang as new members of the Board of Directors. They took over from the previous members Dominique Freymond and Nicola Thibaudeau. Dominique Freymond, former Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, stood down at the end of May after having served the maximum term of office of twelve years. Nicola Thibaudeau had already left the Board of Directors for professional reasons at the end of 2013 after seven years in office.