SGKB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Vice - Chairman Oft He Board, PhD in Law, Attorney - at - Law, St. Gallen
Andrea Cornelius has been a lecturer for Digital Technology, Entrepreneurship and Marketing Management at the Munich University of Applied Sciences since 2018. Before moving to teaching and research, she had been working for IBM in various management positions for 10 years. Prior to that, Andrea Cornelius worked for international companies such as Allianz, Computer Sciences Corporation CSC and T-Systems Enterprise Services. She completed her physics studies at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1987 and received her PhD in natural sciences from the University of Hamburg in 1991.
Job Titles:
- Members of the Management Board
Christian Schmid has been Chairman of the Management Board since May 1st, 2021.
Before that, he was a member of the Executive Board and Head of Corporate Center since August 2008. From 2004 to 2008, he was CEO of RSN Risk Solution Network AG and built it up to the leading outsourcing platform for credit risk management in Switzerland. From 1999 to 2003 Christian Schmid already worked for St.Galler Kantonalbank, at this time as Head of Credit Portfolio Management and Head of Business Development in Retail & Commercial Banking.
Dr. Hanspeter Wohlwend serves on the Management Board and acts as Head of Private Banking since March 1st, 2018.
Before that, from 2016 - 2017 he was Head of Group Product Management at Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG. From 1995 - 2015, he worked for Notenstein Privatbank AG and its predecessor company Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers in St. Gallen in various management functions. Since 2007, he was a member of the Executive Board. From 2007 - 2012, he was head of the operations division, from 2012 - 2015 he was Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Board and Head of Market Services
Falk Kohlmann has been a Member of the Management Board and Head of Market Services since January 2021.
He joined St.Galler Kantonalbank in 2016 as Head Digital Banking. Previous, as Head of Banking Trends and Innovation at Swisscom, he was responsible for the think tank e-foresight, which consults Swiss banks in digitalization.
Marc Mächler has been delegated by the Government Council of the Canton of St.Gallen accordance with article 5 of the Cantonal Bank Act. As Government Councillor, he represents the Canton of St.Gallen as the main shareholder in the board of directors of the St.Galler Kantonalbank.
Marc Mächler has been Government Councillor of the Canton of St.Gallen since 1 June 2016. Until 2020 he was Head of the Department of Construction. Since 1 June 2020 he has been Head of the Department of Finance. Prior to his election to the Government Council, he held various management positions at UBS for around 20 years. From 2009 - 2016 he worked in the Wealth Management & Swiss Banks division of UBS AG in St.Gallen, first as Head of Institutional Clients Eastern Switzerland, later as Head of HNW Rayon St.Gallen. From 2003 - 2008 he worked as a political consultant in the Corporate Center of UBS AG in Zurich. After graduating as lic. oec. HSG in 1996, Marc Mächler worked for UBS Warburg and its predecessor company SBC Warburg Dillon Read in the Corporate Finance department in Zurich until 2002.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Board and Head of Corporate Center
Patrick Graf has been a Member of the Management Board and Head of Corporate Center since August 1st 2021.
Before that, he worked for PostFinance AG in various management functions for more than 16 years, since 2014 as a member of the Management Board. From 2014 to 2017, he led the Corporate Center division, where he was, among others, responsible for risk management, legal and compliance. Since 2017, as Chief Business Unit Officer Payment Solutions, he has been responsible for large corporate clients as well as payment transactions. From 2012 - 2014, he was Head of Legal Services & Compliance. Before joining PostFinance AG, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers AG and Zurich Financial Services AG.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Management Board and Head of Retail and Commercial
René Walser is a Member of the Management Board and Head of Retail and Commercial Clients since July 1st 2020.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Board, Lic. Oec. HSG, St.Gallen
Roland Ledergerber has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2021 and Chairman since 2022. He joined St.Galler Kantonalbank in December 1998 as Head of Corporate Clients and was subsequently Head of Sales and Deputy Head of Division. In 2002, he became a member of the Management Board and Head of the Private and Commercial Clients Division. From 1 February 2008 until 30 April 2021, he was President of the Executive Board. Before joining SGKB he worked for UBS AG in various positions in Switzerland and abroad in the following departments: Controlling, Corporate and Institutional Banking Europe as well as Commercial Clients Switzerland.
Job Titles:
- Swiss Certified Public Accountant, Luzern
After graduating from the School of Economics and Business Administration (HWV), Rolf Birrer joined PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (PwC) in 1991. As partner and lead auditor, since 2001 he was in charge for numerous listed and privately held financial intermediaries. From 2007 - 2017, he was also PwC's Head of Banking Audit for the Zurich/St.Gallen/Vaduz region. He will retire from PwC on 30.6.2023. Due to his decision-making function at PwC, which has been mandated as the external auditor of St.Galler Kantonalbank for many years, he was proposed for election at the AGM on 3.5.2023 with effect from 1 July 2023.