With Dr Michael Gorriz, Swiss IT Security Holding AG is gaining an internationally renowned CIO with many years of experience in the digitalisation of major global companies for the Board of Directors.
Wettingen (Switzerland) 17 May 2022
Dr Michael Gorriz has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Swiss IT Security Holding AG (SITS Holding) with immediate effect.
The physicist with a doctorate in laser technology was the global CIO of Daimler AG in Stuttgart for many years and then of Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. In addition to extensive and international management experience, Michael Gorriz brings over 20 years of leadership expertise in the field of digitalisation and information security. In support of these overarching goals, he has driven the secure migration and operation of essential financial systems in the cloud.
“With Michael Gorriz, we are gaining an internationally renowned CIO for the Board of Directors who, with his broad know-how, can provide us with important impulses from the customer’s point of view in the further development of Swiss IT Security Group into one of the leading European cybersecurity companies,” says Jürgen Rottler, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swiss IT Security Holding.

“Cybersecurity is a major challenge for all organisations, which they often cannot cope with on their own. From my point of view, the Swiss IT Security Group fills this gap with tailor-made consulting services for a wide spectrum of customers and I am pleased to support the successful growth of the group,” adds Michael Gorriz.
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