Urs Schaeppi

Urs Schaeppi has been Head of Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd and Chief Executive Officer of Swisscom since 2013. He holds a degree in engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and a degree in business administration from University of St. Gallen. His professional career began in research and development at Iveco, and in marketing at Ascom. He was also made Operations Manager at Papierfabrik Biberist. After the establishment of Swisscom, he joined the Mobile division as Head of Commercial Business in 1998. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of of Swisscom Solutions and soon afterwards became Head of the Enterprise Customers division. He serves on a number of economic and educational organisation governing bodies.

“The importance and benefit of ICT for the economy and society as a whole will continue to increase.”

Career

• 1994–1998 Plant Manager, Papierfabrik Biberist
  
• 1998–2006 Head of Commercial Business, Swisscom Mobile
  
• 2006–2007 CEO, Swisscom Solutions AG
  
• 2007–August 2013 Head of Enterprise Customers, Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd
  
• Since 2013 Head of Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd
  
• 23 July–6 November 2013 CEO Swisscom Ltd ad interim
  
• Since 7 November 2013 CEO Swisscom Ltd
  
• Since March 2006 Member of the Swisscom Group Executive Board
  

Urs Schaeppi on the 2021 annual results

Other positions of responsibility

• Member of the Executive Board, Association Suisse des Télécommunications (asut), Bern
  
• Member of the Foundation Board, IMD International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne
  
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Entrepreneurs Foundation
  

Other significant activities

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Zurich
  
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Economics, University of Zurich
  
• Mitglied des Beirats des Departements of Economics der Universität Zürich
• Member of the Steering Committee of digitalswitzerland, Zurich (formerly Digital Zurich 2025)
  
• Member of the international Advisory Board of the ZHAW School of Management and Law Zurich