Kurt Fuchs, interim CEO at PostFinance, has announced his early resignation. He had already been considering this decision when he took over the reigns as CEO from Hansruedi Köng in March. Fuchs had been planning this decision for a while, and has decided that the right time is to leave at the start of the new strategy period. Fuchs has decided to step down at his own request at the end of May 2025. This was done in close consultation with the PostFinance Board of Directors and Beat Röthlisberger, who will be the new CEO from 1 July, so that the leadership transition of PostFinance can go as smoothly as possible.

Over the past 13 years, Fuchs has had a major impact on PostFinance as CFO and deputy to Hansruedi Köng and successfully navigated the company through the difficult period of negative interest rates. Fuchs has been acting as interim CEO of PostFinance since March 2024 – and will continue to do so until Beat Röthlisberger takes office on 1 July. After that, Fuchs will return to his existing role as CFO until May 2025. On the announcement of his departure, Fuchs said: “I’m looking forward to a new era away from the banking world, when I’ll be able to dedicate more of my time to my family, my personal interests and new challenges.” His regular retirement would, however, have fallen right in the middle of the new strategy period in autumn 2027. For this reason, this is the ideal time to resign early and make way for a new CEO/CFO team for the coming years.

“A reliable CFO and interim CEO”

“This resignation comes as little surprise, as Kurt Fuchs already made his plans clear to us last year, giving us the chance to start succession planning at an early stage,” said Marcel Bührer, Chair of the Board of Directors at PostFinance. All the same, he will be sad to see him go, as PostFinance will be losing an extremely competent and valued colleague. “Kurt Fuchs could always be relied on – be it in his role as CFO or, most recently of course, in his current role as interim CEO. His tireless efforts over the past 13 years have made a significant contribution to PostFinance’s current health and good position – I sincerely thank him for that,” says Bührer.

The fact that the departure was announced early gives PostFinance more options to find a suitable follow-on solution for Kurt Fuchs. The recruitment process will begin soon.