Executive Board of Zürcher Kantonalbank

Master of Arts and Master of Business Administration

Swiss national; born in 1967

Key mandates:

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association, Basel
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Swiss Cantonal Banks, Basel

Urs Baumann has been the Chief Executive Officer since 1 September 2022. He has many years of experience in domestic and international management as a board member, group CEO, general manager and managing director. He started his career in 1993 as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Zurich. From 1998, he gained professional experience in the finance and banking sector at Swisscard in Horgen, Barclays Bank PLC in London, Lindorff Group in Oslo and Bellevue Group AG in Küsnacht. In 2015, Urs Baumann co-founded Blue Earth Capital AG in Zug (formerly PG Impact Investments AG), which he led as CEO until March 2022. Urs Baumann holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of St. Gallen and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago Booth School. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Swiss Cantonal Banks, Basel, and a member of the Board of Zürcher Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft.

Dr. oec. publ.

Swiss national; born in 1962

Key mandates:

• Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swisscanto Holding Ltd.
• Vice Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of Swisscanto Anlagestiftung, Zurich, and Swisscanto Anlagestiftung Avant, Zurich
• Deputy Chairman of the Regulatory Board of SIX Swiss Exchange AG, Zurich
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich (IBF), Zurich
• Vice Chairman of Member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Finance Institute, Zurich

Dr Stephanino Isele has been Head of Institutionals & Multinationals since 1 April 2014 as well as Deputy Chief Executive Officer since 1 May 2021. He joined Zürcher Kantonalbank on 1 January 2008 as the Head of Trading, Sales & Capital Markets after holding various national and international roles at J.P. Morgan & Co. and Morgan Stanley in London, most recently as COO, where he dealt with equity derivatives.

r. rer. pol.

Swiss / German national; born in 1967

Key mandates:

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swisscanto Holding Ltd., Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Central Mortgage Bond Institution of the Swiss Cantonal Banks, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Banks’ and Securities Dealers’ Deposit Guarantee Association, Basel

Martin Bardenhewer was appointed Head of the Finance business unit and member of the Executive Board from 1 May 2023. He joined the bank in 2001 as the person responsible for the models used to manage balance sheet risk at Zürcher Kantonalbank. He then served as Head of Market Risk Controlling and was in charge of risk measurement in the trading business. In 2007, he was promoted to Head of Treasury and Deputy CFO. After around ten years in the Finance business unit, he switched to the Institutionals & Multinationals business unit in 2017, which he also headed up in a deputy capacity. Martin Bardenhewer began his career as a Senior Consultant at KPMG Zurich. After studying economics at the University of Bonn, he earned his doctorate in economics at the University of Mannheim. In 2022, he graduated from the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in Boston.

Dr. oec. publ.

Swiss national; born in 1967

Key mandates:

• Member of the Board of Directors of SIX Group
• Member of the Board of Directors of Venture Incubator AG
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Swiss GAAP FER

Dr Jürg Bühlmann has headed the Corporate Clients business unit since 1 January 2020. From 2012 to June 2019, he managed the Logistics business unit as a member of the Executive Board. He studied business management at the University of Zurich, where he gained a doctorate. His initial role with Zürcher Kantonalbank was in Controlling. From 2002 until his appointment as a member of the Executive Board, he held a variety of positions within the Logistics business unit. His main duties were the management of strategic IT projects (a sub-area of the IT unit) and the Real Estate unit.

Swiss / German national; born in 1971

Key mandates:

None

Hjalmar Schröder has been Chief Risk Officer since April 2024. He joined Zürcher Kantonalbank in 2015 as Senior Market Risk Engineer, and was responsible for the implementation of the new regulatory standards under Basel III as project manager. He then took over as Head of the Market Risk department. Hjalmar Schröder was Head of Sales and Trading for Foreign Exchange and Precious Metals from 2020 until his appointment to the Executive Board. He began his career in 1996 at Swiss Bank Corporation – which became UBS in 1997 – where he held various management positions, including Executive Director for automatic pricing in the foreign exchange and money market, then Managing Director responsible for the development of the electronic trading platform. In his last role at UBS, he led the global IT team for interest rate and foreign exchange trading. From 2013 to 2016, Hjalmar Schröder was a member of the Board of Directors of EMFA Holding AG in Kerns, which invests in agricultural businesses in Romania. Hjalmar Schröder graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in theoretical physics, and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.

lic. rer. pol.

Swiss national; born in 1962

Key mandates:

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swisscanto Fund Management Company Ltd., Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of Swisscanto Holding Ltd., Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of TWINT AG, Zurich
• Member of the Board of Directors of Viseca Payment Services SA, Zurich
• Deputy Chairman of the Greater Zurich Area Foundation Board, Zurich

Daniel Previdoli has been a member of the Executive Board since 2007. He became Head of Products, Services & Direct Banking on 1 October 2014 after having led the Retail Banking business unit. Prior to that, he spent 11 years with UBS, as Head of Recovery Management Primaries between 1996 and 2002 and subsequently as Head of Retail and Corporate Banking for the Zurich region. From 1987 until 1996, he held various positions with Credit Suisse, both in Switzerland and abroad.

Computer science graduate, Executive Master of Business Administration ZFH from the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration, Zurich

Swiss national; born in 1978

Key mandates:

• Member of the Board of Directors of Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI) 

Remo Schmidli has been Head of IT, Operations & Real Estate and a member of the Executive Board since 1 July 2019. Prior to that, he held a variety of positions at Zürcher Kantonalbank, including in the areas of IT and project management, starting in 2001. He took charge of Multichannel Management in the Products, Services & Direct Banking business unit in 2014.

Master of Mathematics at the EPFL Lausanne, CFA

Swiss national; born in 1972

Key mandates:

• Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Zürcher Kantonalbank Österreich AG, Salzburg
• Member of the Board of Directors of Advance (Gender Equality in Business)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hasler Foundation

Florence Schnydrig Moser was appointed as a member of the Executive Board as of 1 January 2021, and has been Head of the Private Banking business unit since 1 May 2021. Previously she was CEO of Swisscard AECS GmbH in Horgen. Florence Schnydrig Moser worked for Credit Suisse from 2000 to 2018 in various functions in the private banking environment – including in Zurich, Australia and Hong Kong. Most recently, as Head of Products, Investments & Marketing, she was responsible for the development and marketing of products for Swiss private clients and, as a member of the Executive Board, had overarching responsibility within Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. Florence Schnydrig Moser studied mathematics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and then passed the examinations to become a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).