On January 1, 2008, the appointment of two new Group Management members, Patrick Riederer and Urs Ryffel, marked the completion of the Huber + Suhner Group’s reorganization into three divisions. The move is part of the company’s strategy to intensify its focus on its core business of providing ‘Electrical and Optical Connectivity’ solutions and to concentrate its activities on three technologies: Radio Frequency, Fiber Optics and Low Frequency. This also provides the framework for the group’s forward strategy and the future organization structure.
The new appointments see Riederer taking charge of the new Low Frequency Division and Ryffel the Fiber Optics Division. The third division, Radio Frequency, will continue to be headed by Hanspeter Bär.
Riederer, a graduate chemical engineer, is a Swiss national who joined Huber + Suhner in 1991 as a development engineer in the Research and Development Department. In 2001, he took charge of the Wire+Cable business unit. Ryffel holds an engineering degree from the Swiss Institute of Technology and is also a Swiss national. He took charge of the company’s Rollers business unit in 2002 and two years later became head of the Cable Systems business unit.