Chantal Cartier takes over management of Schmid Pelli & Partner

After five successful years, Tiziano Pelli will remain active as a member of the Executive Board and a member of the Board of Directors and will devote more time to his projects and strategic development.

Chantal Cartier, a 39-year-old from Zug, previously worked as a partner at the consulting agency and is the internal specialist in the areas of hospitality, gastronomy and the hotel industry.

"I am delighted about this new task. After a successful start-up phase, the agency must now be led into the future. After all, the environment in which our clients operate is currently highly volatile and we have to be correspondingly agile," says Cartier. Three years after taking up her post at Schmid Pelli & Partner, she replaces 44-year-old Tiziano Pelli, who has been responsible for agency management since the company was founded. Pelli will hand over the reins as planned after five years of successful leadership in order to devote more time to his client projects and the strategic development of the agency. "A change in leadership questions existing things and brings new ideas back into the agency," comments Pelli. He will also remain active as a member of the management team and the board.

A graduate of the renowned Ecole hotelière de Lausanne with an Executive MBA from the University of St.Gallen/Rotmann School of Management in Toronto, Cartier launched her career at Hyatt International in Zurich and subsequently worked for over 10 years in various functions at Switzerland Tourism in Zurich. For many years, she was significantly responsible for the development and strategic direction of Switzerland Tourism's hotel marketing. Since 2017, she also headed the global city marketing before joining Schmid Pelli & Partner on September 1, 2019.