GroNova is led by experienced managers who have worked with renowned companies. They understand your language, your requirements and your needs.
Partner
Beda Elmiger, member of the executive board, is responsible for customer service in the Zurich and Eastern Switzerland region. He has many years of international industrial experience. In his professional career, he gained extensive experience as managing director in the areas of business and organizational development as well as sales and marketing. His experience in the deployment of managers is great: "Success comes with the right person at the right time in the right place!“
Partnerin
Silvie Fleischmann, member of the Executive Board, is responsible for customer service in the Midland region as well as in Southern Germany. In addition, she is responsible for the Customer Relationship Management of the Group. Since 2003, she was successful with management consulting & coaching as well as with management on demand with focus on international marketing & sales. Furthermore, she is very experienced in contracting interim and project management as well as in executive search mandates. She started her management and leadership career in international software houses, e.g. debis Sysetmhaus in Germany.
Partnerin
Since 2020, Esther Kuhn is a member of the group executive board of MAGNALIA and responsible for the Skillpool® with its 2’500 qualified senior managers. In addition, she is an active client service director. In the past 10 years, she was an independent executive search provider and interim manager. Before that she had various senior management positions at Unilever, Mars, Hewlett Packard and ALSO. She has a degree in business administration and marketing.
Partner
Roland Schilter, member of the Executive Board, is responsible for customer service in the Zurich and Mittelland region. He has many years of management experience in national and international service companies. Previously personally responsible for numerous business and organizational developments, he knows what it takes to make things run smoothly: the right implementers with the right experience!
Associated Partner
Günther Krüger, Management Board Member, oversees market development in Germany. He began his career in human resources in the automobile industry before he took on national and international projects as Head of Human Resources at medium-sized manufacturing and service companies. Since 2001, he has worked for renowned human resources and corporate consulting firms in Germany and Switzerland.
Associated Partner
Eric Perucco has more than 35 years of experience in sales, marketing, production, change management, coaching, executive management and as a supervisory board member with national and international duties. He is also on the executive board at a number of associations and advisory boards.
Sales-/Relationship-Management
Claudia Hafner is familiar with the world of domestic and international major companies as well as the needs of small and medium-sized companies. She is in charge of sales and relationship management at GroNova and puts her broad experience managing projects dealing with change, interfaces and innovation in IT, marketing, logistics, HR and CSR in various industries (food and non-food consumables, industrial goods, services, retail business, advertising, telecommunications, NGOs) to good use.
Partner, Innovationsmanagement
Dr. Beat Birkenmeier, Partner, has advised industrial and services companies on matters pertaining to innovation management for about 20 years. His focus areas are tapping growth potential, strengthening innovative power and shaping operational and organizational structures. He founded a spin-off company of ETH Zürich, of which he has been the managing director for many years, and also works as a lecturer at numerous Swiss institutions of higher education.
Partner
Eric Pineau is implementation expert and senior advisor since 20 years. He is delighted to deliver significant performance increase and complexity reduction in productions and supply chains. He identifies actionable measures in a short check-up and consults for sustainable implementation. His track records conclude turnarounds in machinery and material supply companies.
Partner, Controllingmanagement
Rainer Jung, Head of GroNova Academy, has been advising small and medium-sized companies on building suitable controlling structures for more than 20 years. His emphasis is on conceptualization and implementation of system-supported solutions for process-oriented cost and services calculation as a basis for controlling.
Partner, Management complex projects
Hans-Peter Legler, Managing Partner of GroNova, has many years of executive experience in national and international industrial and service companies. As CEO he led companies to new growth. His speciality is the combination of turnaround with simultaneous generation of profitable growth. Especially in complex business environments he knows how to deal with the needs of all stakeholders on an operational as well as strategic level.
Managing Partner
Dr. Andreas Suter, managing partner of GroNova, has advised major industrial and services companies for many years on organization and business model matters. His emphasis is on managing complexity to generate new growth. He developed the concept of the value added machine as a professor at TU Graz.
Assistant Management Board
Claudia Schaller, Assistant to the Management Board, is responsible for administration and manages those interested in joining the Skillpool.