Strategy adjustment brings personnel changes
Jacques Mauron is stepping down as CEO of Groupe E with immediate effect. He is thus reacting to the strategic restructuring of the Fribourg-based energy supplier, which will also lead to 168 redundancies in the Technology and Infrastructure Directorate. Alain Sapin has been appointed interim CEO.
Jacques Mauron is drawing the consequences of the strategic restructuring of Groupe E and is stepping down as CEO. According to a press release, the Board of Directors has appointed Alain Sapin, Director of Electrical Energy at the Fribourg-based energy supplier, as interim CEO. Mauron has worked for Groupe E since 2004 and has been CEO since November 2019.
Groupe E announced in April that it was reviewing its photovoltaic and heat pump activities in its own canton and other parts of French-speaking Switzerland. This was the company’s response to a sustained decline in sales in this area since 2023. It now wants to adapt the structure of the Technology and Infrastructure Directorate so that the individual branches are given more independence.
This strategic reorganization is associated with job cuts. In April, the company was still assuming that 188 of its 2,600 employees would be made redundant. Following consultation with the social partners, the number of redundancies was reduced to 168 in May.
The previous head of the Technology and Infrastructure Directorate, Michel Beaud, has since left Groupe E. He has now been succeeded on an interim basis by Johann Ruffieux, Head of Procurement and Trading.