SwissBoardForum renews board of directors
At the association meeting of SwissBoardForum on June 15, 2023 in Bern, Ralph P. Siegl was elected as the new president. Silvan Felder, who had held the office since 2017, and Dr. Stephan Hostettler did not stand for re-election after many years on the board and were duly bid farewell.
Ralph P. Siegl was elected as the new President of SwissBoardForum at the 2023 Association Meeting. As a political scientist and economist, partner of the company Experts for Leaders AG, multiple member of the Board of Directors and CEO as well as delegate of the Board of Directors of Hochdorf Swiss Nutrition AG, he brings an extremely broad and profound experience to continue the SwissBoardForum as a Swiss-wide platform for the practical exchange among members of the Board of Directors, it says in a statement to the media.
15-year era ends
Ralph P. Siegl replaces Silvan Felder, who after many years on the Board (since 2008, President since 2017) did not stand for another term of office. Silvan Felder, founder and owner of Verwaltungsrat Management AG in Lucerne, has played a decisive role in shaping the positive development of SwissBoardForum over the past 15 years and, together with the respective board team, has made important decisions. He and his company will continue to be associated with SwissBoardForum as associate partners.
Continuity and a castling in the Executive Board
With Dr. Stephan Hostettler, Managing Partner of HCM International AG in Zurich and board member since 2009, another personality was not available for a further term of office. According to the statement, Stephan Hostettler had also decisively shaped the SwissBoardForum and enriched it in particular with his profound expertise on compensation topics. He and his company will also remain associated with SwissBoardForum as associate partners.
Prof. Dr. oec. Michèle Sutter Rüdisser, an experienced and highly qualified person who is firmly anchored in board practice, has been recruited as a new member of the board. Michèle Sutter Rüdisser is a titular professor of Organizational Control and Corporate Governance at the University of St. Gallen and, among other things, Director of the Network for Innovative Corporate Governance (NICG) at the IFF-HSG Institute there. She is also active as an independent member of supervisory boards, banks and boards of directors.
Miscellaneous composition
At the same time, the following individuals from the corporate world were re-elected to the Board for a further term of office: Anne Bobillier, Gian-Luca Lardi, Karin Perraudin, Prof. Dr. Edgar Philippin, Rolf Schmid and Ralph P. Siegl. The Board of SwissBoardForum thus continues to be very diversely positioned and sees itself well equipped to continuously develop the platform for professional board activity.
The SwissBoardForum was founded in 2007 as the Swiss Institute for Boards of Directors (sivg). As a Switzerland-wide platform for board of directors topics and corporate governance, it promotes professional board of directors and foundation board activities with a clear focus on SMEs and is economically and politically independent.
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