Edward Schwarz was appointed as the inaugural General Manager of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, created on December 1, 2003. He is responsible for all Group internal and external activities of the Holcim Foundation, including the Awards competitions and events, publications, and other initiatives.
A Swiss national, Edward Schwarz was a journalist BR/VSJ and worked as editor of monthly construction-trade magazine, Schweizer Journal: Der öffentliche Bau, and later of a daily newspaper covering the region of Zurich, Zürichsee-Zeitung. In 1989, he was appointed editor-in-chief of a private radio station in the same region, Radio Zürisee.
From 1992, he was in charge of communications of Cemroc Management AG, a building materials holding company which was later integrated into the “Holderbank” Group, now Holcim Group. In 1994 he became head of communications of the newly-founded Swiss “Holderbank” Cement und Beton, now Holcim (Schweiz) AG.
In 1999 Edward Schwarz joined Corporate Communications of Holcim Ltd as global head of Group internal and online communications. In addition, he was part of the global Holcim brand implementation team from 2001.
[last updated 07-November-2010]