LGT Bank Switzerland changes boardroom and C-suite
The Swiss branch of the Liechtenstein bank has made a number of changes to the management team in the course of adapting its governance structure to strengthen the private banking business in Switzerland.
LGT Bank Switzerlan has appointed Bruno Piller, Member of the Executive Board, as Head of Private Banking and Anna de Veer as Head of Compliance as Chief Risk Officer.
Piller, who will take over the bank’s private banking business from next spring, has been with the bank since it was founded in 2004, initially as head of the Bern / Mittelland region, and since 2014 as a member of the management team and head of private banking Switzerland onshore. He is federal. dipl. Banking specialist and graduate of the Swiss Banking School; he also studied at Insead in Fontainebleau and Singapore.
«As an experienced banking expert, Bruno Piller knows the customer business of LGT Bank Switzerland very well. Over the years he has made an important contribution to the successful development of the private customer business. We are convinced that his experience will further strengthen our private banking business at home and abroad, ”said Heinrich Henckel, CEO of the bank.
De Veer joined the bank in November 2019 and has been responsible for compliance since January 2020. Before joining LGT, she held various management functions in the Compliance and Risk department at a major Swiss bank for over 12 years.
“In her career so far, Anna de Veer has built up extensive know-how in the area of risk and compliance in an area that has become more and more important in recent years, which she will bring to the management,” said Henckel.
Subject to official approvals, Henckel will be appointed as CEO, Piller as Head Private Banking, Wolfgang Tracht as Chief Operating Officer and de Veer as Chief Risk Officer on the Bank’s Management Board.
With the change in the boardroom of the bank, Rémy de Bruyn, who has been a member of the management of LGT Bank Switzerland for 13 years, is also stepping down. As Head of Private Banking International, he was responsible for the bank’s business in Central and Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East regions. Although de Bruyn is stepping down from operational responsibility, he will continue to be available to the bank in an advisory capacity.
«Rémy de Bruyn has played a key role in the successful development and expansion of LGT Bank Switzerland since 2008. We are very pleased that he will continue to support us with his extensive private banking experience in strategic issues. His excellent network and entrepreneurial spirit are very valuable to us, ”said Henckel.
Florian Dürselen, Head of Private Banking Europe at the bank, will also take on a new position, subject to the supervisory authorities, as Head of Private Banking at LGT Bank in Liechtenstein and will join the management team at LGT Bank from the second quarter of 2022. Before moving to Switzerland, he was a member of the management team in Liechtenstein from 2010 to 2013.
“Florian Dürselen has been a member of the management team responsible for the European market since 2013 and in this role has made an important contribution to aligning LGT Bank Switzerland to the changed framework conditions in European markets and to optimally positioning the bank,” said Henckel.
Dürselen will focus on international growth projects that will be managed from within the EEA in the future, will drive the expansion of the core markets of Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany and Austria and will further develop the European business of the bank, which is carried out from Bank Liechtenstein.
The private banking and asset management group has been controlled by the Liechtenstein family for over 90 years. The bank had assets under management of CHF 275.0 billion (US $ 297.4 billion) in June 2021 and employs 3,900 people in 20 locations in Europe, Asia, America and the Middle East.