Martin Wechsler

Martin Wechsler

CIO of Migros Group,
Switzerland

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Migros is a cooperative organization in Switzerland, comprising over 2 million members and ten regional cooperatives. It operates as one of the largest employers and investors in the country.

The Federation of Migros Cooperatives functions as the central service provider for the Migros Group. It supports the cooperatives, as well as industrial and commercial enterprises, with services in finance, IT, and human resources. Approximately 2,500 employees work across more than 100 roles to manage these tasks, including the implementation of sustainability policies and coordination of group-wide activities.

Revenue

28,9 bn CHF

Employees

97,5k

Details

With over 60 companies, Migros Group is the largest private employer and the largest supermarket chain in Switzerland. The company is structured in the form of a cooperative federation with more than two million members. The name comes from the French "mi" for half or mid-way and "gros", which means wholesale.

  •  May 2020 – present: Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, Zurich, Switzerland
  • August 2013 – April 2020: Agile Leader / Solution Train Engineer (SAFe) / IT Program Manager at “Die Mobiliar“ Bern Area, Switzerland
  • June 2003 – July 2013: Director IT at Credit Suisse
  • 1999 – 2003: Consultant/Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company
  • 1995 – 1999: Chief Architect/Member of the Board of Eurospider Information Technology AG
  • 2015 – 2017: TRIUM Global Executive MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA, LSE London School of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business New York, HEC Paris
  • 1994 – 1998: ETH Zurich, Dr. sc. techn., Computer Science, Thesis: Spoken Document Retrieval Based on Phoneme Recognition. Speech Recognition. Information Retrieval.
  •  1989 – 1994: ETH Zurich, Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH, Computer Science