Zürcher Oberland Medien: Change in management
Change in the management and editorial team: Dani Sigel succeeds Peter Edelmann on the Executive Board. The new publishing director is Christian Brändli. He has replaced Christian Müller since the end of March.
As already communicated in the fall of 2014, Director Peter Edelmann will retire on April 30, 2015. Edelmann served Zürcher Oberland Medien for almost 40 years, 19 of them as a member and eight as Chairman of the Executive Board. Under his commercial and technical leadership, the company successfully implemented the major technological changes that had become necessary in the media industry in the 1980s and, from 2008 onwards, set the strategic course in good time to master the future with the trend-setting three-media strategy.
The Board of Directors has elected Dani Sigel to succeed Peter Edelmann as of May 1, 2015. The 51-year-old Sigel is familiar with the media scene from his previous professional activities, both from a publishing and a journalistic perspective. He was Publishing Director and Managing Director of Liechtensteiner Volksblatt AG from 2002 to 2013. Since January 1, 2014, he has been in charge of subscription services and marketing at Zürcher Oberland Medien.
As early as March 31, 2015, Editor-in-Chief Christian Müller stepped down from his position as Head of Publishing in order to work in the future with his own company in the field of communications consulting and organizational development. At the time of his departure, Müller had been with Zürcher Oberland Medien for exactly 21 years, most recently as Editor-in-Chief for seven years. Under his leadership, the company implemented its three-media strategy, which has resulted in, among other things, ZO-Online as the strongest regional news portal in the canton of Zurich.
Since April 1, 2015, the new Editor-in-Chief has been 53-year-old Christian Brändli, who was previously Christian Müller's deputy and has been working for Zürcher Oberland Medien since 1988. After completing his studies at the University of Zurich to become a historian, Brändli took over the "Zürcher Oberland" department. In 1996, when the Zürcher Oberländer took over the Anzeiger von Uster, he became the head paper's editorial director in Uster. In 2008, he changed his place of work back to Wetzikon, where he was in charge of the daily newspapers as head of the page-making team.
