Christian Speck becomes vice-president for Switzerland at Bechtle

Christian Speck will take on the newly created role of Vice President Switzerland at Bechtle from January 1, 2025. The former director of Bechtle Switzerland is responsible in his new role for the activities of Bechtle Schweiz AG and Bechtle Suisse SA and Bechtle direct. Hanspeter Oeschger, the current sector director of Bechtle in Switzerland, will leave the company next spring.

Bechtle has appointed Christian Speck vice president Switzerland from January 1, 2025. In his new role, the current head of Bechtle Switzerland will assume responsibility for the business of Bechtle Schweiz AG and Bechtle Suisse SA and Bechtle direct, the IT group announced . Christian Speck will in the future report directly to Konstantin Ebert, member of the group’s management board. Current divisional director Hanspeter Oeschger will leave the company in spring 2025.

As Vice President, Christian Speck receives overall responsibility for the distribution channels IT Service Companies & Managed Services as well as IT e-commerce, which were until now managed separately. He is further responsible for the design and implementation of a nationally integrated multi-channel strategy. Bechtle establishes this transversal vice function for the third time on a national market, after the Netherlands and France,

Since 2020, Christian Speck has served as Director of Bechtle Switzerland. He initially shared this management function with Markus Oeschger and Roger Suter, but since mid-2022 he has been the sole director. Previously, Christian Speck was for many years director of the company Steffen Informatik, which Bechtle acquired in 2016 and which Christian Speck subsequently managed under the name Bechtle Steffen Switzerland.

Hanspeter Oeschger says goodbye

Hanspeter Oeschger, who was until now a member of the board of directors of Bechtle in Switzerland, will continue to accompany Christian Speck until the end of March 2025. Hanspeter Oeschger will then leave the company to devote himself to his own interests and his family.

In 2019, Hanspeter Oeschger took over responsibility for the steering committee of the IT Services Company & Managed Services Schweiz division. It significantly strengthened the strategic and organizational reorientation of the Bechtle IT service companies in Switzerland and the cooperation between the group companies.