MCH Group has appointed Bernd Stadlwieser as CEO of the MCH Group. He succeeds Rene Kam, the veteran CEO who resigned after MCH's chief asset, BaselWorld lost close to 40 percent of its exhibitors in 2018.
Bernd Stadlwieser has more than 20 years' international professional experience in the watch, jewelry and art business as well as in the fields of business development and digitisation. After holding different senior positions at Swarovski, he worked for the Thomas Sabo group from 2003 to 2014.
From 2014 to 2017, he was Group CEO of Avenso (Lumas, White Wall), before switching to Mondaine Watch as Group CEO in December 2017. Bernd Stadlwieser is an Austrian national and lives near Zurich in Switzerland.
"I am very much looking forward to my new job", Stadlwieser said. "The MCH Group has a strong market position in a fascinating business segment that I am very familiar with from my work to date and my relations with Baselworld and Art Basel. The company is facing major challenges and opportunities. I have seen for myself that the necessary transformation and innovation process has already been launched and that, together with the employees, key steps have been taken to realign the business for the future,ensuring that the MCH Group will emerge stronger than before"