Ursula Soritsch-Renier has started her career at a software startup before joining Royal Philips Electronics in 1995. From 1995 until 2009, she held various assignments for Philips in Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and USA. From 2009 until 2013, she served as Global Head for IT Strategy, Sourcing, Project Management as well as Enterprise Architecture at Novartis in Cambridge, USA. Since 2013, she is CIO of Sulzer, a Swiss industrial company, located in Winterthur, Switzerland.

 

Ursula Soritsch-Renier holds a Master of Philosophy and Computer Science from the University of Vienna and a Bachelor of the WIFI College for Economics in Austria. She was awarded Swiss CIO of the year in 2014.