Christian Hunziker is the new Managing Director of swissICT
With Christian Hunziker, a leader with an excellent network in the ICT industry and broad experience in marketing and sales is taking over the reins of the Swiss ICT association swissICT.
Christian Hunziker is the new managing director of SwissICT. In him, the association has gained a person with a wealth of experience: Hunziker was a long-standing member of the management boards of both foreign (including Sun Microsystems and Dell) and Swiss ICT companies (including ELCA). He currently joins the association from Comsoft direct AG, a subsidiary of Bechtle AG, and will succeed Thomas Flatt, who has held the position on an interim basis since March 2017.
Computer scientist, managing director and winner of the Swiss ICT Award
Hunziker, an ETH mathematician, has been active in the Swiss ICT industry for more than 25 years and has taken different perspectives on the industry through his experience with vendors as well as users and in the channel. As a former software developer, data warehouse expert, marketing and sales manager, and most recently managing director, he is very familiar with the issues facing the industry and swissICT, and has already come into contact with the association on several occasions. Among other things, with the software manufacturer ELCA as a finalist in the Swiss ICT Award 2008 and with the award of the then ELCA CEO Daniel Gorostidi as Champion People.
Christian Hunziker wants to drive digitization forward
Hunziker, a sales and marketing professional, intends to continue the association's chosen path and digitalization strategy with swissICT in order to make the association even more attractive to existing and future members. In doing so, he will push ahead with projects such as the renewal of the Swiss ICT Award, the online platform "Careers in ICT," the Life Long Learning initiative, our independent studies on salaries and fees, and also the relaunch of the swissICT website.
Hunziker himself sees a lot of potential at swissICT: "I was able to benefit from Switzerland's successful ICT workplace for many years myself. I am very pleased to be able to make an active contribution to its further development at swissICT. In doing so, I not only want to accompany our members on their way to a digital future, but also fully digitize our own products."
