Peter Somaglia began his career in 1968 as a commercial officer with the former airline Swissair, where he held various positions at head office and abroad until 2000. The highlight of his career was his 5-year assignment as CEO of Swisscargo AG. Following the grounding of Swissair, he spent several years as an independent management consultant before taking over as CEO of the airfreight handling company Cargologic AG in Zurich in 2004. Since 2015, he and his partner Peter Wild have been developing the new CarbonCare programme, which is focused on calculating CO2 emissions from logistics and transport activities and can be used free of charge.