| Media release
Andreas Rickenbacher has announced that he will not be available for re-election to the Board of Directors at the next ordinary General Assembly in mid-May 2018. The decision comes in the wake of his appointment as a representative of the Canton of Bern to the Board of Directors of BKW.
By letter received today, Member of the Board of Directors Andreas Rickenbacher has announced that he will not be available for re-election at the next ordinary General Assembly on 15 May 2018. He has chosen to step down because the governing council of the Canton of Bern has appointed him as the cantonal representative to the Board of Directors of BKW as of 1 June 2018. Andreas Rickenbacher has been a member of the Board of Directors of Swissgrid Ltd since 2016.