Strategic realignment at Implenia with new management team
Implenia is facing a change of leadership: CEO André Wyss is stepping down from the operational business by the end of March 2025. Jens Vollmar will be his successor. Wyss will also take over the chairmanship of SBB from 2026.
Implenia is facing a change of leadership. The internationally active construction and real estate company from Opfikon announced in a press release that current CEO André Wyss will retire from operational business at the end of March 2025. According to information from SBB, the outgoing Wyss will join the Board of Directors of Swiss Federal Railways in April 2025 and will take over the chairmanship from Monika Ribar in 2026. Implenia’s Board of Directors has appointed Jens Vollmar as Wyss’ successor. The current Head Division Buildings and Country President Switzerland has been with Implenia since 2013.
“I am delighted that in Jens Vollmar we have been able to appoint an ideal internal successor as future CEO,” said Hans Ulrich Meister, Chairman of Implenia’s Board of Directors, in the press release. “The Board of Directors is convinced that with his strategic, business and construction expertise, his experience and his personality, he will lead the Group successfully into the future.” Implenia will decide on a successor for Wyss at the head of the Buildings division at a later date.
The Civil Engineering Division will also be restaffed. Erwin Scherer will succeed Christian Späth, who is leaving the company, on September 1, 2024. Scherer has been responsible for tunnel construction and related infrastructure projects in the European markets at Implenia since 2019.
In a further press release, Implenia announces its results for the first half of 2023. According to the statement, revenue increased year-on-year from CHF 1.72 billion to CHF 1.74 billion. At the same time, the operating result at EBIT level rose from CHF 49.9 million to CHF 50.5 million. For the year as a whole, Implenia expects EBIT of around CHF 130 million.