Switzerland


 

August Gossewisch, Senior Executive Vice President
Central & Eastern Europe

August Gossewisch (born 1947) has been Senior Executive Vice President Central & Eastern Europe since 01 October 2004.

His professional career started in 1967 with Swissair in Zurich. After living in Lebanon, Italy, Algeria and Korea, he transferred to Wagons-Lit Travel in October 1988, where he took over as Managing Director of CWT Switzerland. On top of this, in 1995 he was also given a position with Carlson Wagonlit Travel USA (Minneapolis). In 1997, August Gossewisch took over the position of Vice President for Sales & Account Management of the region "Central Europe & Mediterranean Zone". He was appointed Vice President/General Manager of Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the beginning of 1999. In March 2001, he also became responsible for the “Eastern & Mediterranean Zone”. Due to a restructuring, August Gossewisch has been appointed Senior Executive Vice President Central & Eastern Europe on 01 October 2004.