New partner at Open Up
To mark its tenth anniversary, Zurich-based communications and PR agency Open Up is strengthening its management team from two to three partners. As of July 1, 2011, Melanie Schneider from JvM/Limmat joins the management team, which previously consisted of Kilian Borter and Urs Thaler.
Melanie Schneider is a federally certified PR consultant and previously worked as a Managing Director of PR agency working for Jung von Matt/Limmat. There, she managed mandates with a focus on strategic corporate communications, cross-media campaigns and media relations from the service, consumer goods, health, tourism and non-profit sectors. Prior to that, she acquired a diverse range of communications expertise on the client side as Head of Communications in the private customer segment at Swisscom and as the person responsible for corporate communications, brand management, sponsoring and as media spokesperson for the Internet brand Bluewin.
About the agency
The communications and PR agency Open Up was founded in Zurich in 2001 by Urs Thaler and Kilian Borter and currently has eleven employees. The focus is on strategic communications consulting, media relations, corporate publishing and internal communications. The agency is a member of the Association of Public Relations Agencies in Switzerland (BPRA).
www.open-up.ch
