Yves Aeschlimann, new Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Management Board

With effect from 1 August 2023 Yves Aeschlimann has been appointed Chief Risk Officer and member of the Management Board. This appointment has been approved by FINMA. In this post he will be specifically responsible for supervising the risk, compliance and legal functions.

Yves Aeschlimann has solid experience in bank risk management and has held similar positions at Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA and EFG International, in both cases also sitting on the Group Executive Board. Prior to that, he worked as a senior financial sector specialist in the Financial Market Integrity Group at the World Bank in Washington, DC and served as a judge in Geneva, acting as an examining magistrate. Yves Aeschlimann began his career as a lawyer in Geneva.