Peter Boss and Urs Wälchli join the Board of Directors

Kilchenmann AG, Switzerland's leading communications and media technology company, has successfully completed the MBO process and restructuring initiated in 2019: The Annual General Meeting of the owner-managed SME elected Urs Wälchli (44) and Peter Boss (40) to the Board of Directors on June 30, 2022.

With the handover to the next generation, Kilchenmann AG is excellently positioned to prudently continue the expansion steps that have been initiated.

In 2019, Kilchenmann AG initiated the handover to the next generation as part of an MBO process: On April 1, 2020, long-time CEO Ulrich Jost retired from the operational business and handed over responsibility to his successor Mathias Brand (49). Together with the new management team and the entire team, he has systematically driven forward the restructuring of Kilchenmann AG, the Swiss leader in the communications and media technology market, which is 100% owner-managed and in Swiss hands.

Kilchenmann AG, which has established new locations in French-speaking Switzerland (Lausanne), Eastern Switzerland (St. Gallen) and Northwestern Switzerland (Novartis Campus, Basel) in recent months, is now also completing the rejuvenation process in the Board of Directors: At the Annual General Meeting of Kilchenmann AG, the resignations of Chairman of the Board of Directors Raphael Häring and Board member Ulrich Jost took place. "Both of them deserve the extraordinary thanks of all Kilchenmann men and women for their services and many years of prudent management of the company," says Mathias Brand.

Board of Directors of Kilchenmann AG ideally positioned for challenges

The Annual General Meeting elected the experienced entrepreneur Peter Boss (40) and Urs Wälchli (44), a visiting professor at the University of Rochester (USA) and entrepreneur who is a recognized expert in the financial management of innovative SMEs and family businesses, as their successors.

CEO Mathias Brand will now also chair the Board of Directors. The two current members of the Board of Directors Martin Candinas and Peter Stähli were re-elected.

"With Peter Boss and Urs Wälchli, two proven experts have joined the Board of Directors of Kilchenmann AG, whose specialist knowledge makes them an ideal fit for Kilchenmann. They will help us to drive forward our expansion strategy prudently but with vigor. I am very much looking forward to working with this extremely competent and efficient body in the future," says Chairman of the Board of Directors/CEO Mathias Brand.

In connection with the restructuring of the Board of Directors of Kilchenmann AG, which has now been implemented, Brand continues: "I would like to thank everyone involved for their commitment and the very good cooperation, thanks to which we were able to successfully implement the restructuring that began in 2019 as planned."

Bern-Kehrsatz, July 7, 2022

For further information:
- Mathias Brand, Chairman of the Board of Directors/CEO Kilchenmann AG, 079 469 23 73.
- Christoph Hubacher, Head of Marketing & Communication, 076 314 66 28.