Marc Walder

Marc Walder (born 19 August 1965) is a Swiss journalist, media executive and former professional tennis player. He is CEO and Managing Partner of Ringier and Chairman of the Group Executive Board. Life Walder was a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from 1984 to 1991. His best ranking in Switzerland was 7, while his top results in the ATP world rankings were 170 (doubles) and 575 (singles), respectively. In 1989, he was double Swiss tennis champion at indoor and outdoor doubles. In 2008 he completed the Advanced Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston. Marc Walder lives near Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife and two daughters. Ringier AG Following eight years as a tennis pro, Walder embarked on a career at Ringier AG, a Swiss media enterprise, in 1991. He trained at the Ringier School of Journalism in 1993-94. Walder was deputy editor-in-chief of the Sunday tabloid SonntagsBlick from 1997 to 1999 and headed the sports desk at the daily tabloid Blick and SonntagsBlick from 1999 to 2000. During the years 2000 to 2006, Walder served as editor-in-chief of Schweizer Illustrierte. He went on to become editor-in-chief of SonntagsBlick while simultaneously heading the Ringier AG newspaper division. On 1 September 2008 Marc Walder took over as CEO of Ringier Switzerland on the Group Executive Board. As a media executive, Walder is committed to a strategy of diversification. Under his guidance Ringier has supplemented its core business (newspapers, magazines, printing plants) by investing in entertainment (events, ticketing, radio, television) and transaction-based Internet business (online marketplaces, e-commerce). On 5 April 2012 Walder was appointed CEO of Ringier AG and became Chairman of the Group Executive Board. Until March 2013 he additionally served as CEO Ringier Publishing. In 2016, he was jointly responsible for setting up the joint venture Ringier Axel Springer Schweiz AG and Admeira, a joint marketing organization of Ringier and Swisscom. On 30 January 2018, at the Ringier Management Conference, it was announced that Marc Walder had acquired 10 percent of the shares of the company, thus becoming a Managing Partner.