Parku: Anja Hansen new Head of Communications
Anja Hansen is taking over as Head of Communications at Parku with immediate effect. The 29-year-old is now responsible for all marketing and communications activities of the parking broker.
Previously, the journalism graduate worked, among other things, in media relations at Swiss radio and television SRF and was most recently a senior consultant at Ferris Bühler Communications. As CCO, she will also be responsible for the communications launch of parku in Germany this fall.
With Anja Hansen, Parku has brought a communications professional on board, according to a statement: She started her career in the online editorial department of the news portal Bluewin.ch before gaining experience in the media relations team at Swiss radio and television. As a senior consultant at Ferris Bühler Communications, the Zurich native most recently assisted clients such as Hertz Switzerland and Edelweiss Air with their strategic PR and media work.
Aurel Albrecht, Managing Director at parku, is pleased about the reinforcement in the team: "With the engagement of Anja, we create the best conditions to further professionalize parku's communication." Anja Hansen will also play a central role in particular in the expansion of the rapidly growing start-up to Germany and other Swiss cities. Thanks to her studies in journalism, which she completed at both the University of Zurich and the Free University of Berlin, she is very familiar with the peculiarities of both countries.
Parku is a German-Swiss start-up and provider of a website and a mobile application that acts as a marketplace for parking space seekers and bidders in the city of Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen and Geneva. The goal of Parku is to simplify the search for parking spaces in the city by having parking lot owners offer their unused parking spaces to parking lot seekers. The vacant parking spaces can be found in advance or in real time via the website Parku.ch or the corresponding app can be reserved. For parking space owners, this creates the possibility of an attractive additional income, while parking space seekers can save time and park at top locations for an amount starting at two francs per hour. Parku's parking supply in Switzerland will soon crack the 2000 mark, according to the release. New parking spaces are being added daily. The service is scheduled to expand to Germany this fall.
