Yesterday evening, I was invited by Dominique Freymond, who is Partner of Management & Advisory Services and, among others, Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Post at a conference of Etienne Jornod – CEO and Chairman of the Galenica Group (pharma industry). This conference was organized by an informal Executive French-speaking club called “Les Quatre Saisons” in Zürich, Switzerland. Very interesting discussion about the role of the pharma industry in Switzerland, which is homebase of a lot of huge companies as Roche, Novartis, Serono, Galenica. For the size of this country, this is great :-) About 1 million people are working directly and indirectly for the pharma sector (there are 7 million inhabitants in Switzerland!).

Some other great discussions with Jean-Pierre Klumpp, the CEO of one of the oldest Swiss Private Bank – Ehinger & Armand von Ernst, which will be integrated in a bigger one – Julius Baer in the coming time.

Plus, some good exchange about culture and international projects & HR frameworks with Garry Wagner, Chief Human Resources Officer of Siemens Building Technology.

And, last but not least, with Marina de Senarclens, Chairman of the communicatiojn company Leu+Partner.

I was there with Manu, the CEO of Boomerang. A picture of Manu about 10′ before the start of the conference:

The Lake of Zürich is marvelous at the end of the day:

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Great business evening, thank you Mr. Freymond!