The Zurich-based non-public financial institution Maerki Baumann is to ascertain a Know-how Advisory Board headed up by Marc P. Bernegger from 1 January 2025.
The brand new knowledgeable physique, which will even embrace PD Dr Alexander Ilic and Sandra Tobler, will deal with strategic subjects associated to expertise.
This step has been guided by the family-owned firm’s perception that disruptive applied sciences and new corporations reminiscent of fintech corporations may have a significant influence on the monetary and banking industries going forwards. The Know-how Advisory Board will actively help the non-public financial institution’s Board of Administrators and Govt Board within the additional improvement, digitisation and innovation of its enterprise mannequin.
Applied sciences reminiscent of synthetic intelligence, blockchain and robotics are more and more permeating the economic system and society usually. Their potential to set off change might be felt in all sectors of the economic system and also will see the marketplace for monetary providers, specifically, endure a elementary transformation.
This improvement is prone to see a shift within the aggressive panorama, with new enterprise fashions, reminiscent of these of fintech corporations, turning into established.
The Board of Administrators and Govt Board have entrusted Marc P. Bernegger with accountability for Maerki Baumann’s Know-how Advisory Board.
Marc P. Bernegger has been a founder, board member and managing director of quite a few technology-focussed corporations for over 20 years. Within the current previous, he has been lively as a profitable entrepreneur within the areas of blockchain, crypto and longevity.
In his function as Head of the Know-how Advisory Board, Marc P. Bernegger will report back to the Chairman of the Board of Administrators, Hans G. Syz-Witmer, and the Chief Govt Officer, Dr Stephan A. Zwahlen, of Maerki Baumann. The brand new committee will advise the 2 administration our bodies in addition to numerous key people on the non-public financial institution on strategic points regarding expertise.
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