Juerg Bucher

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Jürg Bucher (2018)

Jürg Michael Bucher (born August 2, 1947 ) is a Swiss manager . He headed today's PostFinance AG from 2003 to 2011 , as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Swiss Post from 2009 to 2012 and was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Valiant Holding & Bank AG from 2013 to 2020 .

Background and career

Bucher attended the Neufeld grammar school in Bern , studied economics and business administration at the University of Bern and later completed various additional training courses in management, controlling and corporate finance at home and abroad.

After graduating as lic.rer.pol in 1973, Bucher wrote as a freelance journalist in the areas of local, politics, business and sport and was involved as a research assistant in regional research and planning in Bern.

In 1976, Bucher joined the Swiss PTT (post, telephone and telegraph companies) and over time took on management responsibility at top management level in the areas of finance, controlling and corporate development. From 1993 he helped to prepare and implement the division of PTT into the new companies Swisscom and Swiss Post AG in 1998.

Between 1998 and 2011, Bucher led today's PostFinance AG, first as Deputy CEO and from 2003 as CEO, in its development from a payment transaction provider to a renowned retail bank in Switzerland. He had been a member of the Post Group Management since 2003 before taking over the operational management of the Post Group in 2009. After a phase of turbulent personnel changes at the top of the company, Bucher initiated a realignment of the group. The basis for this was a new legal basis. Post, PostFinance and PostBus became publicly owned stock corporations, and PostFinance AG received a banking license.

After resigning as CEO of Swiss Post in 2012, Bucher chaired the board of directors of the listed supraregional retail and SME bank Valiant. His tasks include the strategic and structural realignment of the bank after a crisis of several years with serious reputational damage.

Part-time and voluntary activities

Jürg Bucher is committed to promoting start-ups and young executives in training. He was the first chairman of the board of directors of SUSI Partners AG (sustainable investments), Zug, co-founder of the start-up center in Bern and a long-standing member of the board of directors of InnoBE AG. He has been lecturing at the private University of Economics, PHW, Bern since 2016.

As an enthusiastic active athlete (orienteering, biking, jogging, skiing and cross-country skiing) and a person interested in culture, Bucher works in various sporting and cultural institutions, including as a board member of Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy AG and until 2020 as a board member of SCB Group AG Bern . From 2015 to 2018, Bucher was the first President of the Board of Trustees of the newly established umbrella foundation Kunstmuseum Bern - Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, and brought the two large art houses together in terms of organization and management.

In the social area, Bucher has been involved in the foundation board of the Denk an mich Foundation since 2013 .

Private life

Jürg Bucher is married and has one grown son. He lives in Wichtrach and Adelboden .

Awards

  • Internal Communicator of the Year 2009 from the Swiss Association for Internal and Integrated Communication.
  • Special Award 2011 from Swiss Ice Hockey for its long-term commitment as a sponsor for the benefit of Swiss ice hockey and especially the next generation of ice hockey.

literature

  • Gilgen Fredy: The way to the podium: From Postcheck to Postfinance. Published by PostFinance. Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2012, ISBN 9783727212338 .
  • Knobel Walter: Yellow moves - Swiss Post from 1960. Published by Swiss Post. Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2011, ISBN 9783727212178 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Stefan Barmettler: Power network by Jürg Bucher: The double booker. In: Bilanz , February 12, 2010, accessed on May 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ Paul Schneeberger: The last director of the post office. In: NZZ , August 19, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Board of Directors. Purposeful and responsible . Valiant Bank website. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bucher, Juerg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bucher, Juerg Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss manager and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1947