Board of Directors

The Federal Council elects Swiss Post Ltd’s Board of Directors every two years. On the reference date (31 December 2018), 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 Services Organization Act, employees have the right to appropriate representation on the Board of Directors. In 2018, this representation was provided by Michel Gobet and, until the date of the General Meeting on 26 June 2018, by Susanne Blank. Ronny Kaufmann has been the second Human Resources representative on the Board of Directors since 27 November 2018.

After the Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen of the Board of Directors, members are listed in the order in which they took office.

Urs Schwaller

Chairman of the Board of Directors, member since 2016, Switzerland, 1952, Dr iur.

Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration; Audit, Risk & Compliance; Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions

Professional background: self-employed lawyer; Council of Europe (permanent member); Council of States for the Canton of Fribourg (President of CVP / EVP); Cantonal Council of Fribourg (State Councillor – Director of Internal Affairs and of Finance); Senior Civil Servant of the Sense District; Director of the Cantonal Police Department; member of various federal commissions and foundations

Key posts: Groupe Mutuel Holding SA (Member of the Board of Directors); JPF Holding S.A. (Member of the Board of Directors); Liebherr Machines Bulle S.A. (Member of the Board of Directors); ST-PAUL HOLDING SA (Member of the Board of Directors), stood down in 2018; UCB Farchim SA (Member of the Board of Directors)

Philippe Milliet

Member of the Board of Directors, member since 2010, Vice-Chairman, since 2018Switzerland, 1963, degree in pharmacy, MBA

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, engagement manager); Galenica Holding AG (analyst / programmer and Assistant to the Chairman of the Corporate Executive Committee)

Key posts: BOBST GROUP (Group Executive Committee, Head of Business Unit Sheet-Fed)

Peter Hug

Member of the Board of Directors, member since 2018, Vice-Chairman, since 2018, Switzerland, 1958, Dr rer. pol.

Committees: Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions (Chair); Audit, Risk & Compliance (Chair a.i.)

Professional background: F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Head Commercial Operations EEMEA, Head of Pharma Medicines Western Europe, Head Pharma Partnering, Managing Director, Pharma, Spain, Head of Diagnostics, Roche Diagnostics, Germany, General Manager, Pharma & Country President, Uruguay, Pharma Division Director, Roche SA, Greece), stood down on 31 December 2018

Key posts: Interpharma (Chairman of the Board), stood down on 31 December 2018

Marco Durrer

Member of the Board of Directors, member since 2009, Switzerland, 1952, Dr ès. sc. pol., MALD

Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration (Chair)

Professional background: Valiant Privatbank AG (CEO and Member of Executive Management, Valiant Holding AG); Lombard, Odier, Darier, Hentsch & Cie (Group Management, Branch Manager Zurich); Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA (Head of Sales and Trading); Credit Suisse (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); DGM Immobilien AG (Chairman of the Board of Directors); Comunus SICAV (Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors)

Michel Gobet

Member of the Board of Directors, Human Resources representative, member since 2010, Switzerland, 1954, 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:UNI Global Union (Treasurer, Member of World Executive Committee; GDZ AG (Member of the Board of Directors), stood down on 31 December 2018

Nadja Lang

Member of the Board of Directors, member since 2014, Switzerland, 1973, degree in business economics UAS

Committees: Organization, Nomination & Remuneration

Professional background: Max Havelaar Foundation Switzerland (Managing Director); Fairtrade International (Chair of the Global Account Management Steering Committee, Member of the Finance Committee), Max Havelaar Foundation Switzerland (Commercial Director and Deputy Managing Director); General Mills Europe Sarl (European Marketing Manager); The Coca-Cola Company (various [management] positions in brand management and the Innovation department)

Key posts: Metron AG (Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors); Energie 360 Grad AG (Member of the Board of Directors); Cooperative of ZFV companies, (Member of the Board of Directors, Member of the Human Resources Committee), Institute of Supply Chain Management, University of St. Gallen (Member of the Executive Committee)

Myriam Meyer

Member of the Board of Directors, member since 2014, Switzerland, 1962, Dr sc. techn.

Committees: Audit, Risk & Compliance

Professional background: mmtec (Owner and Managing Director); WIFAG-Polytype Holding AG (Group CEO); RUAG Aerospace (CEO); F. Hoffmann-La Roche (member of the Roche Consumer Health Executive Committee); Swissair (member of the Flight Operations Management Board); SR Technics (Vice President, Engineering)

Key posts: KUKA AG (Member of the Supervisory Board); mmtec (Owner and Managing Director); Lufthansa Technik AG (Member of the Supervisory Board); Wienerberger AG (Member of the Supervisory Board); Bedag Informatik AG (Member of the Board of Directors); Swisscontact (Member of the Foundation Board); Industrial Advisory Board of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich (Member); Innosuisse (Member of the Innovation Board), stepped down in 2018

Bernadette Koch

Member of the Board of Directors, member since 2018, Switzerland, 1968, Certified public accountant, business economist, Higher School of Economics and Administration

Committees: –

Professional background: Ernst & Young AG (People Partner, Member of the Management Committee of Assurance Switzerland, Partner / Head of the Public Sector market area)

Key posts: Energie Oberkirch AG (Member of the Board of Directors)

Ronny Kaufmann

Member of the Board of Directors, Human Resources representative, member since 2018, Switzerland, 1975, lic. rer. publ. University of St. Gallen

Committees: –

Professional background: Swisspower AG (CEO), Swiss Post (Head of Public Affairs & Corporate Responsibility), Mediapolis AG für Wirtschaft und Kommunikation (Co-Owner and Partner)

Key posts: Swisspower Ltd (CEO); Nordur Power SNG AG (Member of the Board of Directors)

Roger Schoch

General Secretary, member since 2018, Switzerland, 1971, Lawyer, Executive M.B.L. HSG

Professional background: Alpiq Holding AG (General Secretary), Swiss Federal Railways SBB (Chief Compliance Officer, Deputy Head of the Group Legal Service, Secretary of the Board of Directors)

Key posts: none