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:

• Managing Partner in Goldenberg Immobilien GmbH, Kefikon
• Managing Partner of Rychenberg Consulting GmbH, Kefikon
• Member of the Executive Board of Expertsuisse, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung für Kleinsiedlungen, Winterthur

Sandra Berberat Kecerski has been a member of the Board of Directors since February 2022. She has managed Goldenberg Immobilien GmbH since 2014 and Rychenberg Consulting GmbH since 2023. In addition, since 2020 she has chaired the audit committee of EXPERTsuisse, the expert association for auditing and taxes. 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 the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

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

Master of Science ETH Swiss national; born in 1980

Key mandates:

• Member of the Board of Directors of qashqade AG, Zurich

Gregor Kreuzer holds a Master of Science in Physics from ETH Zurich. He is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors and Risk Manager of qashqade AG, a company specialising in financial mathematics software for fund managers, institutional investors and auditors. He began his proessional career as a consultant for IT and management 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 GLP Kanton Zurich political party from 2017 to 2024.

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

PhD from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Swiss national, born in 1968

Key mandates:

• none

Dr York-Peter Meyer was elected to the Board of Directors in November 2024 to replace Walter Schoch, who stepped down. Dr York-Peter Meyer holds three degrees in banking & finance, including a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has more than 24 years of experience in the financial industry. He began his professional career at the investment bank Salomon Brothers selling equity derivatives. He then held senior positions selling derivatives and structured products at Citigroup, Leonteq and most recently at Bank Vontobel.

He is a member of the Audit and Risk committees of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Doctorate (Dipl. rer. pol.) in economics
Swiss national, born in 1963

Key mandates:

• Member of the Executive Board of the German Association for Environmental Management and Sustainability in Financial Institutions (VfU), Frankfurt

Kristine Schulze was elected to the Board of Directors in December 2024 to replace Henrich Kisker, who stepped down. Kristine Schulze has a doctorate in economics from the Technical University of Hanover, two Certificates of Advanced Studies in Sustainable Finance and Social Management, and a Master of Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics from the University of Zurich. She has more than 30 years of professional experience in banking, insurance and consulting. She began her career at Deutsche Bank, after which she held positions as a banking consultant at Kearney and Systor. She took up her first position in the Swiss financial centre in 2000 as Sector Head of IT and Controlling at Credit Suisse. This was followed by positions as Head of Staff at Coop Bank and another as Project Manager at Credit Suisse. In 2012, Kristine Schulze switched to the insurance industry and took over as Head of Corporate Responsibility at Helvetia Group. In this role, she headed the Sustainability Commission of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA) from 2019 to 2022. Since 2022 she has been responsible for sustainability at the SIA. She also represents the insurance industry on the Executive Board of the German Association for Environmental Management and Sustainability in Financial Institutions (VfU) in Frankfurt.

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

Prof. Dr. iur., LL.M., MBA, attorney-at law
Swiss national; born in 1969

Key mandates:

• Member of the Board of Directors
  of SRG SSR, Berne

Hans-Ueli Vogt is a full professor of private and commercial law at the University of Zurich. He teaches, publishes and lectures primarily in the areas of stock corporation law and corporate governance. He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Gesellschafts-
und Kapitalmarktrecht and of a major legal commentary on company law. Hans-Ueli Vogt is an attorney-at-law who advises and provides expert opinions for companies, boards of directors and private individuals. He also acts as an arbitrator on various occasions. Prior to that, he was a consultant at the Zurich law firm Homburger and an associate at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. Since 2024, Hans-Ueli Vogt has been a member of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank and the Board of Directors of the SRG SSR media company. From 2015 until 2021 he was a member of the Swiss National Council, where he played a key role in shaping the revision of company law on 19 June 2020. In 2022, he stood as the SVP parliamentary group’s candidate for the Swiss Federal Council. Hans-Ueli Vogt speaks German, English, French and Italian.

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

CFA, Business Economist HWV
Swiss national; born in 1970

Key mandates:

• Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors SKAT Consulting AG, St. Gallen
• Member of the Board of Directors of Auwiesen Immobilien AG, Winterthur
• Member of the Board of Directors Aravis Biotech II GP AG, Zurich

Claudia Zimmermann is a business economist HWV with a degree as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a CAS in Applied History from the University of Zurich. She is the founder and managing director of C-Advisory GmbH, which advises and supports companies and organisations in the private and public sectors with a focus on finance, ESG and digitalisation. Claudia Zimmermann is also a board member of Swiss SMEs in the areas of international cooperation, energy and real estate. She is involved in the start-up challenge venture of ETHZ and EPFL, as well as in the ESG committee of the 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.