Merry Christmas from SEC – looking back on 2024

Merry Christmas and a successful New Year!

Dear members, partners and friends of the SEC,

As 2024 comes to an end, we reflect with gratitude and pride on a remarkable jubilee year, celebrating 25 years of SEC. Your continuous support and active participation have been the driving force behind our successes. Together we achieved much, and were able to once again achieve our goal of improving out relationsships with the 17 countries of CEE and of making all of us more successful. 

Review of the events 2024:

Ambassador Event (February)

SEC Business Luncheon ‘Relationships to Europe’ (March) 

General Assembly at Zimmer Biomet (April)

Launch Event SEC Romandie (August)

CEE Day (September)

Slovak-Swiss Business Get-Together (September) 

SEC Golf Tournament with KMU SWISS (September)

Swiss-Czech Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Forum (October) 

Fall Event on ESG (November) 

CEE Swiss IT Solutions & Talent Summit (December) 

Underlining the positive path SEC is on, we are proud to have added 25% more members, strengthened our vibrant SEC community and grew our finances.

I would like to thank our motivated and skillfull SEC team, most of all, Irena Belcheva for their contribution, our board for their strategic leadership and all our members, partners and clients for their trust!

Together, we have laid a robust foundation for an even more impactful 2025. Thank you for being part of this journey. All at SEC look forward to achieving great things together!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!

Warm regards on behalf of all at SEC,
Oliver Bertschinger
President & Managing Director