Romande Energie : Daniel Hammer appointed Corporate Secretary

Press release

Morges, 6 February 2017

Daniel Hammer appointed Corporate Secretary The Board of Directors of Romande Energie Holding SA has appointed Daniel Hammer as its Corporate Secretary and as Group General Counsel. He will take up this position at a date to be announced in due course.

As Corporate Secretary, Daniel Hammer will manage the boards of Romande Energie and those of many of its subsidiaries, as well as overseeing the legal department. As member of the Group's Management Committee, he will also participate in defining and crystallising business strategy as well as developing and strengthening alliances.

Daniel Hammer holds a law degree and an executive qualification in corporate communications. He has also completed a course on negotiating skills at Harvard Law School. Since 2007, he has been Corporate Secretary for Swiss Media, the umbrella association of private media companies in French-speaking Switzerland. Between 1999 and 2007, he was town clerk for the Lausanne municipal council. In 1997 and 1998, he was employed as research assistant by the Institute of Federalism (University of Fribourg).

Daniel Hammer will succeed Pierre Oberson, who left the Group on 31 January to become the Corporate Secretary of Groupe E, a power provider in the cantons of Fribourg and Neuchâtel.

Romande Energie Group is delighted to be able to avail itself of Mr Hammer's vast experience and solid expertise and wishes him every success as well as the utmost satisfaction in his future position.

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Romande Energie at a glance

Romande Energie Group is the leading electricity distributor in Western Switzerland. Through its subsidiary Romande Energie Commerce, it supplies more than 300,000 end-customers directly in approximately 300 municipalities in the cantons of Vaud, Valais, Fribourg and Geneva. Its core business lines are the generation, distribution and marketing of power together with energy services.

Priorities are liaising with customers to ensure high-quality services in line with expectations; guaranteeing a reliable, sustainable and competitive supply of energy; developing proprietary power generation through priority investments in renewable energy; and promoting innovative energy-efficiency solutions.

Romande Energie's corporate social responsibility policy systematically guides its approach to business.

For more information on Romande Energie Group, visit www.romande-energie.ch