Technology Magazine July 2021 | Page 124

BELL FOOD GROUP
SVEN FRIEDLI TITLE : CIO INDUSTRY : FOOD PRODUCTION LOCATION : SWITZERLAND
Passionate manager with 15 + years of experience in it , telecom , enterprise architecture , manufacturing and organisational development . Before Sven entered Bell Food Group he spent the past 12 years in the telecom industry .
He started his career studying computer science and business economics at the university of applied science in Bern and worked for a startup in software development . Within Swisscom , Sven first was responsible for several managing roles in the enterprise business group , mostly focusing on managing and delivering IT projects and telecom services .
Over the last five years he was responsible for the strategic direction guiding architecture , technology , and innovation within Swisscom . Since October 2021 , Sven has been managing the IT of Bell Food Group . He has to keep the balance in order to master the increasing complexity in IT , to ensure the daily 7 / 24 operation of the company , and to make sensible use of the opportunities of digitisation for Bell Food Group .

EXECUTIVE BIO

“ IT ' S IMPORTANT TO SHOW OUR INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS UNITS WHAT THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES CAN DO FOR THEM IN TERMS OF EFFICIENCY , STABILITY , AND TRANSPARENCY ”

SVEN FRIEDLI CIO , BELL FOOD GROUP