Susanne Ruoff

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Susanne Ruoff (2016)

Susanne Ruoff (born September 29, 1958 in Zurich ; resident in Oberengstringen ) is a Swiss manager . From April 2009 to February 2012 she was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BT Switzerland AG, the Swiss branch of the BT Group . From September 1, 2012 to June 8, 2018, she was Group Manager at Swiss Post .

Life

Ruoff, the daughter of a nurse and a tax expert, grew up in Zurich. She trained as a teacher and worked as a primary school teacher for seven years. The Zurich native has a degree in economics and is Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in telecommunications from the International Institute of Management in Technology (iimt) at the University of Freiburg . She holds a Client Executive degree from the Insead Management School in France and completed further training on corporate governance in executive boards at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) .

From 1989, Ruoff worked for IBM Switzerland in various management positions in the areas of marketing , sales and service business and headed the public administration division . At the end of her twenty years, she was a member of the executive board from 2005 to 2009 and was responsible for Global Technology Services. She was also a member of the board of trustees as employer representative of the pension fund of IBM Switzerland for six years .

From April 2009 to February 2012 she was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Country Head of BT Switzerland AG, the Swiss branch of the BT Group.

In November 2011, she was appointed Group Manager on September 1, 2012 by the Board of Directors of Swiss Post. She joined the company on June 1, 2012 and, after a three-month familiarization phase, replaced Jürg Bucher at the helm of Swiss Post, who was retiring. Ruoff is the first woman in this position. As a group leader, she became a member of the board of directors of the subsidiary Postfinance AG and chairman of the board of directors of Post CH AG, Post Immobilien AG and PostAuto AG .

From 2009 to 2013 Ruoff was a member of the Board of Directors of Geberit , from 2011 to 2012 she was a member of the Board of Directors of Bedag Informatik AG, the IT company of the Canton of Bern . She was also a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich until spring 2012 .

In 2017 Ruoff took part in the Bilderberg conference .

On June 8, 2018, Ruoff resigned in the course of the “ PostBus Affair” for allegedly illegally obtained subsidies from PostBus Schweiz AG over a decade totaling 78.3 million francs. She thus assumed overall responsibility, but pointed out that there had been certain indications of the illegal booking practice at PostBus in the period under review between 2007 and 2015, but that there was no evidence that she was aware of this practice. The investigation report followed on June 11, 2018.

Private

Ruoff is married with one grown son and one grown daughter and lives in Crans-Montana . She does not belong to any party and sees herself in the middle politically.

Publications

  • Job sharing and part-time at management level - situation in the Swiss IT and telecommunications industry. Executive diploma thesis with Norbert Thom , University of Freiburg, 2003.
  • The role of the Chief Information Officer in Switzerland. IBM Switzerland, Zurich 2006 ( PDF file; 274 kB ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Commercial Register Office Zurich, Daily Register No. 25506 of July 6, 2009, inspection on June 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ IT manager will lead Post in future. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung . November 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ Bettina Kunz: The woman at the head of the post. ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Schweizer Fernsehen from September 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Reto E. Wild, Hans Schneeberger: "You can't do a big job alone." Interview in: Migros magazine 36/2012 of September 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Mathias Morgenthaler: She is leading Swiss Post into the digital future . In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 23, 2011
  6. ^ A b Nicole Kircher, Pascal Tischhauser: "I encourage part-time work for men too" ( Memento from November 27, 2011 on WebCite ). Interview in: SonntagsZeitung . November 27, 2011 (archive version)
  7. ^ A b Dominik Balmer: The new boss of the “Macho Club”. In: Berner Zeitung from September 1, 2012
  8. ↑ a b c d Swiss Post : New Group Manager: Susanne Ruoff succeeds Jürg Bucher . Media release of November 22, 2011 ( archive version) ( Memento of August 31, 2012 on WebCite )
  9. ↑ a b c d Geberit : Susanne Ruoff ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 29, 2012)
  10. ↑ Luca Zappia succeeds Susanne Ruoff at BT. In: Small report from January 18, 2012
  11. ↑ Susanne Ruoff is supposed to lead Swiss Post into the digital age . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 22, 2011
  12. ↑ Balz Bruppacher: “I only know the post from the outside” . In: 20 minutes . November 22, 2011
  13. ^ For the first time a woman at the helm of the Post ( memento from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tagesschau . November 22, 2011
  14. ^ Susanne Ruoff on the Swiss Post website. Archive version from June 11, 2018.
  15. ↑ Geberit shareholders agree to all proposals. Media release of April 4, 2013 (PDF file; 22 kB)
  16. ↑ Bedag computer science AG. In: monetas.ch, SHAB publications, accessed on September 1, 2012
  17. ^ A b Nicole Tesar: "Bern receives new taxpayers" In: Der Bund of September 27, 2012
  18. ↑ ETH Zurich : Industrial Advisory Board (accessed April 29, 2012)
  19. ↑ Susanne Ruoff on the Swiss Post website, accessed on July 3, 2014
  20. ↑ Bilderberger Participants 2017. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Jorgos Brouzos, Yvonne Debrunner: Susanne Ruoff stumbles over the Postbus affair. In: Tages-Anzeiger from June 10, 2018.
  22. ↑ Fabian Muster: Post manager Ruoff on husband: "He is a househusband and calls himself that too" . Interview in: Aargauer Zeitung . November 23, 2011
  23. ↑ Patrik Müller , Florence Vuichard: "My mother made a giant leap in the air" . Interview in: Der Sonntag . November 26, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ruoff, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich