Thomas Schönholzer

General Counsel The Swiss Post

A thought and seasoned legal executive with a track record of successful leadership and transformation initiatives of legal, compliance, investigations, risk management and insurance units for listed and high-profile companies. Strengths in business orientation, AI, anticipation, stakeholder management and crisis response. Technical expertise as regards corporate matters/litigation, AI/data, international sanctions/export controls/tariffs, sector regulations/compliance, and ESG. Before joining the Swiss Post Ltd., Thomas was a member of the extended executive committee and the secretary to the board of directors of Sulzer Ltd with global responsibilities for legal, compliance, risk management, insurance and security. After his studies of laws and economics (incl. the Swiss bar exam, an MBA degree and a doctoral thesis on international corporate and finance markets laws at the interface to IT), Thomas worked for 2 law firms in Zurich and in London respectively (Baker & McKenzie and Simmons & Simmons amongst others). Afterwards he spent 10 years in the international IT and telecoms sector before joining a high tech industry and listed company as their general counsel and secretary to the board of directors. Thomas is a lecturer at the Europe Institute of Zurich University and at the Institute for International Business Law of Fribourg University. He regularly speaks on conferences - lately in Zurich on AI & hiring, in London on high stakes/crisis management and the role of the GC, and in Berlin on ESG - and publishes on international corporate matters.