Network Switzerland elects new members to the board
Christina Doll and Andreas Zettel have been newly elected to the board of Netzwerk Standort Schweiz. The business development officer for the town of Schlieren and the deputy director of Lucerne Economic Development are taking over from Jasmina Ritz and Albert Schweizer.
According to a press release, the Netzwerk Standort Schweiz has renewed its board. Christina Doll and Andreas Zettel were elected to the board on 18 March. Christina Doll has been the business development officer for the town of Schlieren since 2025. Prior to this, she spent around ten years helping to develop the Zurich Airport region, amongst other roles. Andreas Zettel has been Head of Business Development since 2015 and Deputy Head of Lucerne Economic Development since 2020.
The two new members replace Albert Schweizer and Jasmina Ritz. Schweizer was Schlieren’s first location promoter and co-founded Netzwerk Standort Schweiz – then known as the Swiss Association for Location Management – in 1998. He has also been a member of its board since 2007. Jasmina Ritz was the first Managing Director of Limmatstadt AG, the cross-cantonal location promotion agency in the Limmat Valley. She has also been a member of the board of Netzwerk Standort Schweiz since 2022. Since the beginning of March, she has been Managing Director of SwissFoundations, the association of Swiss grant-making foundations.
The spring event organised by Netzwerk Standort Schweiz also addressed the changing landscape of location competition. “Whilst major economic blocs are putting pressure on one another through tariffs, massive support programmes and technological races, and military conflicts are creating new uncertainties, location competition is also entering a new phase,” Remo Daguati, President of Netzwerk Standort Schweiz, is quoted as saying in the press release.
Vassiliki Riesen, Head of Economic and Location Promotion in Köniz, highlighted the consequences for Switzerland’s largest agglomeration municipality. She demonstrated how location promotion initiatives can respond to different stakeholder groups whilst also collaborating with numerous partners within the municipality and the canton.
André Guedel, Director of International Business Development at KPMG, highlighted how the new competition is affecting Switzerland as a business location through both taxation and subsidies, and how companies are responding to this.
Netzwerk Standort Schweiz is the umbrella organisation for location and business promotion agencies. Its current membership of around 110 comprises organisations active in location promotion, regional marketing, business development, site development, spatial planning and the property sector.