Marc Walder (born 19 August 1965) is a Swiss journalist, media executive and former professional tennis player.
[3] In 2008 he completed the Advanced Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston.
Following eight years as a tennis pro, Walder embarked on a career at Ringier AG, a Swiss media enterprise, in 1991.
On 1 September 2008 Marc Walder took over as CEO of Ringier Switzerland on the Group Executive Board.
[6][7] On 5 April 2012 Walder was appointed CEO of Ringier AG and became Chairman of the Group Executive Board.
[11] Together with representatives of the city, the canton and business leaders, Zurich is to become the digital capital of Europe.
Walder and Federal President Ueli Maurer invited leading representatives from business and science to Geneva.
[19] The following representatives were invited and joined the European alliance: Besides Marc Walder and Ivo Furrer - President of digitalswitzerland, these are Marcus Wallenberg - Chairman of the SEB and co-founder of the Swedish Digitaltag Initiative Digital@Idag, Susanne Ackum - President Future Work Forum Sweden, Nebojša Đurđević - CEO Digital Serbia Initiative, Dipl.-Vw.
[20] Marc Walder is a board member of several subsidiary companies within the diversified Ringier media enterprise.