Leading Heads

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!“

Paul Jabas, Head of the Switzerland Market, is responsible for marketing in the Group. His career has taken him from apparatus engineering, machinery, plant engineering and maintenance in the chemicals industry to product management in the software industry, before he worked for international leading consulting companies in sales for 10 years.

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.

André Zengaffinen, member of the executive board, focus on customer service and management consulting. As a proven business developer with a global sales and marketing focus, he has successfully held various positions ranging from sales and marketing manager to CEO during his career in large multinational industrial groups as well as in small and medium-sized family businesses. His industrial experience ranges from Utility, IT and Telecom markets to Rail Vehicles, Building- and Safety-, Air Traffic Control- and Sensor-Technology. He is your sparring partner in the implementation of your complex business projects. With the selection of immediately available, experienced experts and managers, he supports you in the appointment of the competences you need at short notice.

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.

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.

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.