Board of Directors and Chairmen of the Board 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 Trustees of ETH Foundation, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of Technopark Immobilien AG, Zurich
• Member 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 Chairmen of the Board 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 is a member of the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank. 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.

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 Chairmen of the Board 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 Zürcher Kantonalbank's Risk Committee.

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
• 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 September 2013 and was appointed as János Blum’s successor as a member of the Chairmen of the Board as at the end of January 2022. He was a member of the Executive Board and Head of Auditing for Budliger Treuhand AG in Zurich from 2009 until 2022. From 2011 to 2014 he was Finance Delegate on the Executive Board of the SP City of Zurich. Prior to this, he worked for Itema (Switzerland) Ltd. in Rüti and Ernst & Young, Zurich, in both Zurich and Amman (Jordan). Since 2022, Mark Roth has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Budliger Treuhand AG, Zurich, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chance Foundation, Zurich, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich. He is a member of the IT Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank and, since April 2022, Chairman of the Management Committee of the Pension Fund and the Marienburg Foundation of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

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 Financial Reporting Specialist 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 Risk and Audit Committees 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 Urban Development at the city of Winterthur since December 2020. She is a member of both the Audit 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.

dipl. Ing. FH

Swiss national; born in 1956

Key mandates:

• Member of the Boards of Directors of Exploris AG, Russikon, and Exploris Health AG, Wallisellen
• Partner in Unimex GmbH, Zug

Peter Ruff joined the Board of Directors in 2011. He is a qualified engineer and has been CEO and co-owner of Exploris Health AG since 2018, a company that develops artificial intelligence-based diagnostics and therapy solutions. Since 2002, he has been the owner and managing director of Exploris AG, which specialises in data analysis in the healthcare sector. From 1994 to mid-2017, he was a member of the Board of Directors and co-owner of Ruf Group, an information technology business. In 2019 he was elected as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Marienburg Foundation of Zürcher Kantonalbank. He has been a member of the Management Committee and employer representative of the Pension Fund of Zürcher Kantonalbank since 2015. Peter Ruff chairs the Compensation and Personnel 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.

lic. oec. publ.

Swiss national; born in 1966

Key mandates:

• Member of the awards committee of Sustainable Harvest Switzerland, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Ökopolis Foundation, Zurich

Anita Sigg has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2011. Since 2003, she has been a lecturer, project manager and Head of the Centre of Personal Finance and Wealth Management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. In addition, the economist is a trustee of the Ökopolis Foundation and a member of the association FinanceMission. She previously held various management positions at Zürcher Kantonalbank within the Corporate Centre and in sales management. Anita Sigg is a member of the Risk Committee and the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.

dipl. Ing. ETH / BWI

Swiss national; born in 1961

Key mandates:

None

Stefan Wirth has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2011. A mechanical engineer and business administrator, he headed up software development at Credit Suisse Asset Management until 2003. He is an independent IT and organisational consultant, and implements projects for various banks in his role as project manager and business engineer. Stefan Wirth is a member of the IT Committee and of the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board of Directors of Zürcher Kantonalbank.