Marco Gugolz has been hospital manager of Klinik Hirslanden in Zurich since August 2020, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Hirslanden Group in his additional role as Chief Operating Officer North-East Region since July 2024. With more than 25 years of professional experience in the Swiss healthcare sector, he has sound knowledge and a broad range of experience. Before being appointed as hospital manager of Klinik Hirslanden, he worked at Swiss Medical Network for seven years, most recently as General Director and a member of the Extended Executive Board. Before joining Swiss Medical Network, Marco Gugolz was Deputy Head of Services at Klinik Hirslanden from 2001 to 2006, then Head of Operations & Services and a member of the management team of Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna in Lucerne from 2006 to 2013.

Career

  • Since July 2024
    Additional role as Chief Operating Officer North-East Region and member of the Executive Committee, Hirslanden Group
  • Since August 2020
    Hospital manager, Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich
  • 2013 – 2020
    Regional Director Zurich/St.Gallen & General Director Bethanien, Lindberg, Belair, Rosenklinik and Ärztezentrum Oerlikon, member of the Extended Executive Board, Swiss Medical Network
  • 2006 – 2013
    Head of Operations & Services, member of the management team, Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna, Lucerne
  • 2001 – 2006
    Deputy Head of Services, Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich

Education

  • Advances studies programme PEI
  • Swiss Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Operations Management
  • Advanced professional examination in institutional catering 
  • Dietary cooking apprentice and nutritionist 

Other activities and functions

  • Member of the Board of Trustees, Klinik Susenberg Zurich
  • Chairman and Partner of the Zentrallabor Zürich ZLZ (Zurich Central Laboratory)
  • Member of the Board of Verband der Zürcher Krankenhäuser VZK (Zurich Hospitals Association)
  • President of the Lake Zurich left-bank regional committee ‘Solidarität mit der Welt’ (Solidarity with the World)
  • Member of the Lions Club Winterthur-Wyland

Further information

  • Born in 1975
  • Family: in partnership

Marco Gugolz

Charl Goosen
Chief Operating Officer North-East Region
Hospital manager Klinik Hirslanden
Member of the Executive Committee
Klinik Hirslanden
Witellikerstrasse 40
CH-8032 Zürich