Pietro Supino

Position: Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Journalism Committee, Chairman of the Nominating and Compensation Committee, Chairman of the Business Development Committee Nationality: Swiss and Italian Date of birth: 10 November 1965

Dr. Pietro Supino has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since May 2007. He was elected to the Board of Directors of Tamedia in 1991. He began his professional career between 1989 and 1998 as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, Zurich and as an attorney at the law firm Bär & Karrer, before he and his partners established the Family Office Bank Private Client Partners in Zurich. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Espace Media Groupe AG and Presse publications SR S.A. and on the Steering Committee of the Swiss Press Association. Pietro Supino completed his studies of law and economics with a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen. He also holds a Masters from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Martin Bachem

Position: Chairman of the Audit Committee Nationality: Swiss Date of birth: 27 July 1958

Dr. Martin Bachem has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 2010. Martin Bachem completed his studies in economics at the University of Zurich with a doctorate and undertook finance-oriented training programmes in New York and Chicago. He began his professional career in 1985 as a capital market specialist with J.P. Morgan. From 1990 to 1994, he headed the Risk Management Advisory Services department at the Swiss Bank Corporation, before being appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Banking Switzerland area in 1995. In this function, he coordinated the merger of the investment banks of the Swiss Bank Corporation and the Union Bank of Switzerland in Switzerland. In 2003, he assumed global responsibility as Chief Operating Officer of Group Human Resources at UBS AG. Martin Bachem has worked freelance since 2007. He has also been a Member of the Board of Directors of Ziegler Druck und Verlags-AG as the representative of the founding family since 1985 and Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1995.

Charles von Graffenried

Position: Member of the Business Development Committee Nationality: Swiss Date of birth: 19 July 1925

Charles von Graffenried was elected to the Board of Directors in June 2007. He completed his studies as a lawyer and notary in Berne. At his father’s notary office, he became an entrepreneur and expanded investment services, portfolio management, and real estate and trust services into the current Berne-based Von Graffenried Group (GR). The Group, entirely owned by him, consists of four subsidiaries: Von Graffenried Private Bank, GR real estate services, GR trust office, and Von Graffenried & Cie. Recht. Charles von Graffenried continues to provide investment advisory services, mainly to private clients and family-owned businesses. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Berne-based media company Espace Media Groupe AG, which he built up from its early beginnings, as well as publisher of Berner Zeitung BZ and Der Bund. Espace Media Groupe AG has merged with Tamedia AG.

Pierre Lamunière

Position: Member of the Business Development Committee Nationality: Swiss Date of birth: 22 February 1950

Pierre Lamunière has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 2009. After completing his studies in the USA (MBA Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Pierre Lamunière joined Edipresse Group in 1977. From 1987 on, he headed the company as General Manager and in 1998 he was named Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. From 1997 to 2002 Pierre Lamunière served on the Board of Directors of Swiss Post. He is President of Lamunière SA and its subsidiaries. Pierre Lamunière is also a member of the Management Board of the International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) where he served as Chairman from 2007 to 2009. Since March of 2008, he has been on the Board of Directors of Banque Cantonal Vaudoise (BCV).

Konstantin Richter

Position: Member of the Audit Committee, Member of the Journalism Committee Nationality: German Date of birth: 21 May 1971

Konstantin Richter has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2004. He began his professional career in 1997 as an assistant editor at the media trade magazine Columbia Journalism Review in New York. In 1998, he worked as an editor at Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He joined The Wall Street Journal as a staff reporter in Brussels in 1999 and resigned in 2001 to write a novel with the title «Bettermann» which was published by Kein & Aber, Zurich in September 2007. From 2004 to 2005 he was Co-Managing Director of the Rogner & Bernhard publishing company. He currently lives and works in Berlin as an author and journalist and continues to write for the Wall Street Journal Europe on a regular basis. Konstantin Richter has a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and a Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

Iwan Rickenbacher

Iwan Rickenbacher Position: Member of the Journalism Committee, Member of the Business Development Committee Nationality: Swiss Date of birth: 10 August 1943

Prof. Dr. Iwan Rickenbacher has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1996. Iwan Rickenbacher began his professional career in 1975 as Director of the Teachers’ College of the Canton Schwyz. From 1988 to 1992, he served as General Secretary of the Christian Democratic People’s Party of Switzerland (CVP) in Berne. In 1992, he established his own communications consulting firm. In the year 2000, he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Berne. Iwan Rickenbacher is a member of the Board of Directors of Espace Media Groupe AG. He is also on the Board of Directors of Eskamed AG, Basel and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lucerne-based Swiss School of Journalism (MAZ). After obtaining his teacher’s certificate, Iwan Rickenbacher studied educational sciences and graduated with a doctorate.

Andreas Schulthess

Position: Member of the Audit Committee, Member of the Nominating and Compensation Committee Nationality: Swiss Date of Birth: 13 June 1970

Andreas Schulthess has been a member of the Board of Directors since May 2007. He began his career in 1993 as a part-time working student in the Human Resources Department of Tamedia. After completing his university studies, he became an IT business consultant in the year 2000, specializing in new technologies and e-business at Applied International Informatics and Cap Gemini (Switzerland) Ltd. During that time he also worked abroad, including one year in Vienna where he built up a new consulting team. After completing his professional training as a coach and subsequent work experience in the field of management and personal development, he returned to operational human resources. Since 2004 he has been working in the Human Resources Department of Swiss Life Schweiz AG where he now heads Human Resources Management Switzerland. Andreas Schulthess graduated from the University of Zurich in 1999 with a degree in economics. He also completed a postgraduate program obtaining an Executive Master of Human Resources Management from the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zurich.

Karl Dietrich Seikel

Position: Member of the Nominating and Compensation Committee Nationality: German Date of birth: 17 August 1946

Karl Dietrich Seikel was elected to the Board of Directors in 1996. He began his career as lecturer in Economics and Business Management at the University of Frankfurt/Main. In 1977, he assumed the position of Manager Human Resources and Central Services at WIBAU-Maschinenfabrik Hartmann AG. In 1980, Karl Dietrich Seikel joined Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg, initially as Head of Human Resources. He became a member of the Executive Committee of Spiegel-Verlag in 1985. From 1991 until the end of 2006 he was Chief Executive Officer (with sole power of representation) of Spiegel-Verlag and Spiegel TV GmbH and Chairman of the Corporate Assembly of manager magazin Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH and SpiegelNet GmbH. Since 2007 he has been working as a media consultant, including Media Coordinator for the First Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He is an honorary member of the Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ), and until the end of 2007, he served as Chairman of the Board of Consumer Magazines of VDZ. Karl Dietrich Seikel completed his studies at the Technical College Darmstadt and the University of Frankfurt/Main with a degree in economics («Diplom-Volkswirt» ).

Secretary General
Reto Spiri
Phone +41 44 248 51 08
Fax +41 44 248 42 40 
reto.spiri@tamedia.ch

Secretariat
Ursula Rupf
Phone +41 44 248 48 01
Fax +41 44 248 42 40
ursula.rupf@tamedia.ch