May 8, 2020

New Head of Buildings

A great deal of management and industry experience for Gruner: Stephan Gürtler is the new Head of the Buildings business area and successor to Kurt Rau at Gruner since May 2, 2020.

After various positions in management and construction, Stephan Gürtler joined Gruner. Prior to that, the 59-year-old was CEO of a construction group in northwestern Switzerland. In the course of his career, Stephan Gürtler acquired extensive knowledge and experience in managing construction and general contractors. Multilingual Stephan Gürtler is a production engineer and industrial engineer. As Head of the business area Buildings, he is a member of the Gruner Executive Committee.

Kurt Rau, who will retire at the end of June 2020, has been part of Gruner for 36 years. He started as a partial project manager in Basel, managed countless projects in Switzerland and abroad, and took over overall project management for large buildings such as the new exhibition center in Basel. Gruner owes a lot to Kurt Rau. Both as a project manager and as a manager in many positions, he has helped Gruner to develop further.

We extend a warm welcome to Stephan Gürtler and wish him every success in his new position!

Stephan Gürtler, Portrait

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