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Thurgau businessman Karl Müller steps down as CEO of Kybun
For Karl Müller, the biggest step in his 48-year business career is about to take place: The Thurgau resident is handing over the management of Kybun to younger hands. Urs Koller will succeed him with immediate effect. Müller himself will focus on the presidency of the Board of Directors in the future.
Urs Koller (left) takes over the management of the Swiss shoe manufacturer Kybun in Roggwil from Karl Müller, with a production site in Sennwald.
(Red.) The news comes as a surprise: Karl Müller, the inventor of the Kybun air cushion shoe and namesake of the FCSG home stadium “kybunpark”, steps down. Kybun’s CEO, who is almost 68 years old, announced it today in a press release. “Since I officially retired three years ago, it has been on my mind to hand over my responsibilities to Kybun’s management in younger hands,” says Karl Müller, explaining his move. His anticipation for the new phase of life is correspondingly great, but the step is still enormous. Because Karl Müller worked as an entrepreneur for a total of 48 years.
Pioneer of footwear as medical aid
As a lateral thinker, Karl Müller revolutionized the footwear industry by developing soles that do not stabilize the feet, but rather mobilize them and therefore have an effect on the health of the human body. The native of Thurgau became known internationally with the MBT roller skate. Karl Müller started his business career in Korea, where he lived for a total of about 20 years and worked, among other things, as an importer and catering entrepreneur.
The last shoe factory in Switzerland
In 2007, Karl Müller founded Kybun AG and started again with the development and industrialization of footwear. Meanwhile, Kybun shoes that promote health with elastic soles have established themselves. With the production site in Sennwald, Kybun is the last factory to manufacture its shoes industrially in Switzerland.
The focus is on people
Karl Müller’s main motivation is not to sell products, but to offer services that help people stay flexible throughout life and be able to walk without pain. The message goes on to say that people’s well-being comes before making money.
A philosophy that the new CEO of Kybun, Urs Koller also lives:
“It fills me with joy and confidence that it will allow me to join the Kybun company and lead it towards a secure future with a focus on customers and employees.”
Urs Koller has extensive professional experience. For 18 years, as Head of Private Clients Eastern Switzerland at Postfinance, he shaped the development of the Postbank branch network, led Post Arbon and was responsible for the sales promotion of all post offices in Eastern Switzerland . In addition, he has run a large nursing home in his professional career, the message says. Urs Koller lives in Frasnacht on Lake Constance, is married and has two grown children. In his spare time, the 54-year-old has been a passionate rower at Seeclub Arbon for more than forty years.
Continue the partnership with FCSG
Resigned patron Karl Müller wants to limit himself to his strategic task as chairman of the company’s board of directors. The strategy includes continuing close collaboration with the FCSG:
“Kybun is with the club even in difficult times. The change of address does not change anything. “
