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Alex Glanzmann new Head of Finance at Swiss Post

The Board of Directors at Swiss Post Ltd has appointed Alex Glanzmann Head of Finance and a Member of Executive Management. He succeeds Dr. Pascal Koradi, who will join Aargauische Kantonalbank. Glanzmann has been Head of Finance at PostLogistics since 2010.

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By appointing Alex Glanzmann, 46, as Head of Finance and a Member of Executive Management, the Board of Directors has completed the arrangements for ensuring a successor to Dr. Pascal Koradi, who is set to become CEO at Aargauische Kantonalbank as of 1 August. Glanzmann has worked at Swiss Post since 2005, and has been Head of Finance in the PostLogistics Group unit since 2010. Thanks to his role to date and current position as member of the Management Board at PostLogistics, he has excellent knowledge of financial management at Swiss Post, internal processes within the Group and the strategic challenges faced by the company. His potential was identified by the Board of Directors thanks to internal talent management and succession planning. Glanzmann will take up his new role from 1 May 2016.

Responsible for Finance, Controlling and strategy process

At PostLogistics Glanzmann is responsible for the Finance & Controlling unit as well as the strategy process. In his current function, he is a member of the Board of Directors at the subsidiaries Mobility Solutions Ltd, SecurePost Ltd, Swiss Post SAT Holding Ltd and a member of the Finance Supervisory Board as well as the Compliance Technical Committee. He previously worked at Swiss Post as Head of the Central Distribution zone and Head of Strategic Projects & Business Controlling at PostLogistics. Before joining Swiss Post in 2005, Glanzmann held management positions at the audit firm BDO Visura.

Ideal profile for position

With his background as well as his experience in leading Group projects, Alex Glanzmann’s profile is ideally suited to meet the requirements for the position of Head of Finance at Swiss Post. Alex Glanzmann studied business administration at the University of Bern. Besides holding an Executive MBA HSG in Business Engineering he has also completed the Strategic Leadership Program at the IMD Business School as well as various other training programmes in management, finance and sales. Glanzmann has one son and lives in Solothurn.

Swiss Post would like to thank Pascal Koradi for his excellent work and his commitment. Over the past four years he has made a significant contribution to the ongoing development of the Group and the conversion of Swiss Post into a company limited by shares subject to a special statutory regime.

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