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Dr. Anna Penninger

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Member of the Board at Reatch
📍 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Anna Penninger is a Partner at Penninger Consulting, where she acts as a sparring partner for C-level executives, guiding strategic IT transformations in regulated industries like finance, insurance, and healthcare. With a PhD in Business Informatics, she combines deep academic knowledge with practical leadership experience. Colleagues describe her as extraordinarily smart, disciplined, and client-oriented.

She is passionate about creating impact beyond her corporate role, serving on the board of the non-profit think tank Reatch to bridge science and society. Anna actively promotes female leadership through her work with "Women for the Board, " where she helps identify and onboard new candidates for board positions.

Unique fact: Anna is a recipient of the Most Innovative Paper Award from the European Conference on Information Systems.

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Member of the Board
Job Level
Junior
Location
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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IT Transformation
Leads strategic IT and change initiatives for C-level executives in regulated sectors, drawing on her experience as a fractional leader and past roles at Swiss Life.
AI in Healthcare
A member of the AI Future Council, she writes and posts about AI's impact on healthcare, analyzing its potential to reduce administrative burdens in hospitals.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Member of the Board
Reatch
9-2021
Sparring Partner & Project Lead for CxOs (Fractional leader)
Penninger Gmbh
4-2023
Member & Onboarding
Women for the Board
9-2023 - 11-2025
Teamlead IT pension fund & IT Transformation Lead
Swiss Life
5-2024 - 10-2025
Member of AI Future Council
Swiss Future Institute | AI Future Skills Certification, Council, Advisory & Research
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Education
2018 - 2021
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Freie Universität Berlin
2020 - 2021
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
GSERM Global School in Empirical Research Methods
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