Board of Directors and Chairperson's Committee of Zürcher Kantonalbank

Dr. oec. HSG

Swiss / German national; born in 1961

Key mandates:

• Member of the Board of Trustees of Innovationspark, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Zurich Zoo, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of Technopark Immobilien AG, Zurich
  
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Opo Oeschger AG, Kloten

Jörg Müller-Ganz was elected to the Board of Directors in 2007 and as a member of the Chairperson's Committee in October 2010. From 1992 to 2010, he worked as a consultant, CEO and partner at the Helbling Group. He also lectured on the subject of corporate finance at various universities. Prior to that, he worked at Bank Vontobel and Credit Suisse. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Opo Oeschger AG, Kloten, in 2015. He holds a doctorate in banking economics from the University of St. Gallen.

He was a member of the Audit Committee from 2007 to 2008, a member of the IT Committee from 2008 to 2019 and has been a member of the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank since 2019. 

Banker, BoD certification from SAQ

Swiss national; born in 1961

Key mandates:

• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of SanArena, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Excellence Foundation for Economic & Social Research at the University of Zurich, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the BlueLion Incubator, Zurich
• Chairman of the Advisory Board of kmu.zh
• Member of the Advisory Board of Umwelt Arena Schweiz, Spreitenbach

Roger Liebi was elected as a member of the Chairperson's Committee in June 2019, having joined the Board of Directors in 2018. He began his career in 1981 at Union Bank of Switzerland in Thun, working in commerce, retail client business and as a foreign exchange/money market dealer at various locations. He rose to the rank of vice-director in international private banking, working, for instance, for the partially state-owned Scandinavian Nordea Bank (Switzerland) as regional manager of several countries from 2004 to 2015. In 2017, he became a self-employed executive search consultant and sports agent, and was also active in the Zurich Banking Association, entrepreneur groups and as chairman of an NGO. He was a member of Zurich City Parliament from 2002 to 2017, chairing several committees, such as finance and audit. As a member of the Cantonal Parliament of Zurich, he headed up its Committee for Economic Affairs and Taxation from 2015 to 2018.

He is a member of the Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Swiss Certified Accountant

Swiss national; born in 1974

Key mandates:

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Budliger Treuhand AG, Zurich

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Chance Foundation, Zurich

• Member of the Advisory Board of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich

• Chairman of the Management Committee of the Pension Fund of Zürcher Kantonalbank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Marienburg Foundation

Mark Roth has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2013, and was elected to the committee of the board at the start of 2022. From 2009 until 2022, he was a member of the Executive Board and Head of Auditing for Budliger Treuhand AG in Zurich. Prior to this, he worked for Itema (Switzerland) Ltd. in Rüti and Ernst & Young, Zurich. While at EY, he worked for about a year in Amman in Jordan to complete his bank audit training. From 2012 to 2022, he was a member of the Commission for Accounting at EXPERTsuisse. From 2001 to 2006 he was a member of Zurich City Council, where he contributed his expertise to the Audit Committee. Mark Roth is co-author of the accounting and financial reporting volume of the Swiss handbook of auditing.

Until being elected to the committee of the board, he was a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors from 2013, which he chaired from 2015. He is a member of the IT Committee of the Board of Directors.

lic. iur. attorney-at-law

Swiss / Egyptian national; born in 1977

Key mandates:

None

Amr Abdelaziz studied law at the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva, and completed a Master of European Law degree (L.L.M.) at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2015. From 2007 to 2015, he worked as a lawyer at CMS von Erlach Poncet AG, Zurich, specialising in cartel investigations. Today he is a partner in a law firm specialising in criminal law. 

He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Swiss / Canadian national; born in 1976

Key mandates:

– Partner in Goldenberg Immobilien GmbH, Kefikon

– Partner in Winterthurer Bau und Immobilien GmbH, Winterthur

– Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung für Kleinsiedlungen, Winterthur

– Member of the Executive Board at Expert Suisse

Sandra Berberat Kecerski has been a member of the Board of Directors since March 2022. Since 2013, she has been a Managing Partner and shareholder of Goldenberg Immobilien in Kefikon. In addition, she has chaired the audit committee of EXPERTsuisse since 2020, and has been a member of the Executive Board of the Expertenverband für Wirtschaftsprüfung, Steuern und Treuhand since 2022. Her professional career took her to Deloitte AG in Zurich as Manager of Audit & Advisory in 2005 and to UBS AG as a specialist in financial reporting in 2011. From 2014 to 2020, she led the financial control department of Winterthur municipal administration. Sandra Berberat Kecerski is a Swiss Certified Accountant and Business Economist and holds an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen.

She is a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Personnel Committee of Zürcher Kantonalbank’s Board of Directors.

Prof. Dr. oec.

Swiss national; born in 1981

Key mandates:

None

Adrian Bruhin has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 2020. He studied at the University of Zurich and earned a doctorate in economics. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a senior economist in the Financial Stability department at the Swiss National Bank in Berne. From 2012 to 2016, he was an assistant professor, and since 2016 he has been a full professor of economics at the University of Lausanne. Adrian Bruhin is an external scientific advisor at Polynomics AG, Olten.

He chairs the Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Dr. sc. ETH Zurich and Prof. ZFH

Swiss national; born in 1970

Key mandates:

None

Bettina Furrer has been a member of the Board of Directors since June 2019. She studied environmental science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and earned a doctorate in economics. She also completed the Executive Management Programme at the Swiss Banking School, Zurich, with distinction. From 1995 to 2003, she held a management position with the rank of Vice President at UBS AG. She was subsequently employed by Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, where she served as a lecturer (2004 – 2011) as well as a professor and Head of the Institute of Sustainable Development (2012 – 2018). As a member of the Sustainability Advisory Board, she advised the management of Basler Kantonalbank, Basel, and Bank Cler, Basel, from 2016 to 2019. She has been Head of the Office of Urban Development in the city of Winterthur since December 2020.

She is a member of the Risk Committee and the IT Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Swiss certified banking expert

Swiss national; born in 1956

Key mandates:

• Mayor of the political municipality of Kloten
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Glatt Valley transport authority (Verkehrsbetriebe Glattal AG (VBG)), Glattbrugg
• Member of the Board of Directors of Seitzmeir Immobilien AG, Zurich

René Huber has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1 November 2014. He has served as the Mayor of Kloten since 2006, and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Glatt Valley transport authority, Glattbrugg, since 2011, and a member of the Board of Directors of Seitzmeir Immobilien AG, Zurich, since 2016. He was a senior advisor for retail clients at UBS AG in Kloten until October 2014, after having occupied various roles at UBS AG.

René Huber is a member of the Management Committee (as employer representative) of the Pension Fund of Zürcher Kantonalbank, and a member of the Audit Committee and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Swiss Certified Accountant

Swiss / German national; born in 1955

Key mandates:

• Directorships in certain group companies of Senior plc, Rickmansworth (UK)
• Delegate of the Board of Directors of NF Technology Holding AG, Zurich, and member of the Board of Directors of its subsidiaries, Schmid & Partner Engineering AG, Zurich, ZMT Zurich MedTech AG, Zurich, Zeugi 43 AG, Zurich and TI Solutions AG, Zurich

Henrich Kisker is a Swiss Certified Accountant. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2015. From 1992 to March 2017, he held the position of Director of Tax and Treasury at Senior plc, Rickmansworth (UK). Between 1989 and 1992, he worked as Lead Auditor for Arthur Andersen AG, Zurich. 

He chairs the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Gregor Kreuzer holds a Master of Science in Physics from ETH Zurich. He is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors as well as risk manager of qashqade, a company specialising in financial mathematics software for fund managers, institutional investors and auditors. He started his professional career as an IT and management consultant at Synpulse, a management consultancy specialising in financial service providers. Gregor Kreuzer then worked in product development and risk management at Executive Wealth Management, a FinTech founded in Zurich. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Berne and the University of Rochester. Gregor Kreuzer was a member of the Zurich cantonal parliament from 2021 to 2023, and was a member of both the Executive Board and the Board of Directors of the Green Liberal Party in the Canton of Zurich from 2017 t0 2024.

He is a member of the Audit Committee and the IT Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

dipl. El. Ing. FH Technikum Winterthur; MA in Theology at the University of Lampeter

UK/Swiss national; born in 1956

Key mandates:

• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of “acasa männedorf”, Männedorf

The engineer and theologian Walter Schoch was elected to the Board of Directors in 2015. He was a member of the Cantonal Parliament from 2007 to 2015 and served as Justice of the Peace in the municipalities of Bauma, Wila and Wildberg from 2003 until 2021. After working for BBC Oerlikon as a project manager (1982 to 1983) and for Imeth AG, Wetzikon, as technical director (1983 to 1987), he worked for Swisscom AG, Zurich, from 1987 to 2003 as key account manager, senior project manager and divisional director. In 2005, Walter Schoch began his studies at the University of Lampeter in the UK, while simultaneously managing the MEOS Media department at MEOS Svizzera. From 2007 to 2010, he headed up the Swiss Mission Fellowship’s office in Winterthur. Since 2019, he has been a substitute member of the Management Committee and employer representative of the Pension Fund of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

He chairs the IT Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Hans-Ueli Vogt is a full professor of Private and Commercial Law at the University of Zurich, with a focus on stock corporation law and corporate governance. In addition, he works as an independent lawyer in an advisory and expert capacity for companies, boards of directors and private individuals, and acts as an arbitrator on various occasions. Previously, he was a consultant at the Zurich law firm Homburger and an associate at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. Hans-Ueli Vogt has studied in Zurich, New York and St. Gallen. Research stays and visiting professorships have taken him to Florence, Harvard, London and Beijing. He was a member of the National Council from 2015 to 2021. As a member of its Legal Affairs Committee, he played a key role in the revision of company law in 2020.

He chairs the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Claudia Zimmermann is a business economist, as well as a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with a CAS in Applied History from the University of Zurich. She is the founder and managing director of C-Advisory GmbH. The firm advises and supports companies and organisations in the private and public sectors with a focus on sustainability and digitalisation. In addition, Claudia Zimmermann is involved in the areas of international cooperation, energy and real estate as a board member of Swiss SMEs. She is involved in the start-up challenge venture of ETHZ and EPFL, as well as in the ESG committee of CFA Society Switzerland. Claudia Zimmermann has many years of management and professional experience in international companies in the fields of ICT, private equity, financial and strategy consulting as well as in industry.

She is a member of the Risk Committee and the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.