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The Board of Directors of SIX has elected Daniel Schmucki as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at SIX and therefore as member of the Group Executive Board. Daniel Schmucki has long-standing and broad experience as a CFO in a complex and challenging environment. He will take up his role on 1 April 2017 at the latest.
The Board of Directors has elected Daniel Schmucki as CFO of SIX. The 48 year-old Swiss national has long-standing and broad experience in the financial management and further development of a central infrastructure platform with international significance. Daniel Schmucki has been Chief Financial Officer and deputy CEO of Flughafen Zürich AG since 2008. In addition to all traditional finance functions, he has also been responsible so far for fee management, information and communication technology, risk and compliance management, central procurement as well as M&A, incl. the operation of all the company's global commitments. In 2013 Daniel Schmucki was named "Switzerland’s CFO of the year".
Daniel Schmucki joined Flughafen Zürich AG as Head Controlling at the end of 1999 with a view to its pending privatization and IPO. In 2002 he also took over responsibility for the Treasury and the Investor Relations departments as well as the expansion of the international airport activities.
Before joining Flughafen Zürich AG, from 1994 he held various management positions in the field of finance within the German Bosch Group, such as Head Division Controlling at Scintilla AG and Chief Financial Officer of Robert Bosch Internationale Beteiligungen AG. Daniel Schmucki has a Federal Diploma as an expert in Accounting and Controlling.
SIX is convinced that it will be able to benefit from Daniel Schmucki's long-standing and broad experience in the challenging environment of an important element of Switzerland's core infrastructure. He will take up his role on 1 April 2017 at the latest. Until Daniel Schmucki joins the company, Stefan Mäder, the current CFO of SIX, who is leaving the company at his own request, will continue in his function and at the same time ensure the orderly handover to the new CFO.
