Board of Trustees

President Board of Trustees

11 April 1957

Councilor of State, Canton Uri

• Teacher training college Altdorf and Rickenbach SZ: Training as elementary school teacher
• ETH Zurich:  Training as professional officer in the Swiss Army
• General Staff training up to the rank of Colonel i Gst and Regimental Commander
• NATO Defense College Rome: International Course in Security Policy International studies in security policy

• 8 years as a teacher at the Attinghausen, UR school
• 19 years professional officer and commander in the Swiss Army
• 2004 – 2016 Member of the Government Council of the Canton of Uri, 6 years Director of Security of the Canton of Uri
• 2010 – 2016 Finance Director of the Canton of Uri

Various board of directors and foundation board mandates

Vice President

20 August 1959

Independent, professional member of foundation boards and boards of directors, strategic consulting in social insurance matters, articles and conferences relating to occupational benefits

Law degree and various training courses at Helvetia, Basel University and St. Gallen University

• 4 years Head of Occupational Pension Plans, Member of the Executive Management Helvetia Group
• 15 years Head of Corporate Pension Market Division, Member of the Executive Management of Helvetia CH
• 4 years Head of Customer Division Corporate L/NL, Member of the Executive Board of  Helvetia CH
• 5 years Managing Director Servisa Collective Foundation of the Swiss Cantonal Banks
• 3 years corporate consultant with BVG Patria Versicherungen

• Chairman Board of Trustees of Helvetia Investment Foundation
• President of BVSA, the Regulatory Authority for BVG occupational benefit institutions and Foundations of cantons AG and SO

Member of the Board of Trustees

10.11.1961

Privateer

Study of law

Dissertation University of Zurich "The position of the employee in the BVG/LPP. Compulsory and voluntary occupational benefit schemes"

• 14 years as Head of Competence Centre for autonomous pension funds (Helvetia Insurance); member of the Executive Board; management functions at various collective and investment foundations
• 3 years Head of Broker Centre Helvetia Patria
• 10 years as Head of Key Accounts and Team Leader at Swiss Life/Rentenanstalt
• 2 years as auditor and legal secretary at the District Court of Zurich

Member of the Board of Trustees

14 September 1977

Parner and Member of the Senior Management of Bommer + Partner Treuhandgesellschaft

Commercial apprenticeship with a bank, FH diploma in business administration, and training as a certified chartered accountant

• 10 years with Baloise Bank SoBa in Solothurn working as a customer advisor and in the controlling and finance department
• 6 years as auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Bern, auditing SMEs and occupational benefits institutions
• Since 2008, partner and member of the executive committee of Bommer & Partner Treuhandgesellschaft in Bern (bookkeeping, payroll administration, financial and tax consulting, auditing) / Special function: head of audit department.

• Membership with ExpertSuisse, TreuhandSuisse and veb.ch
• Member of the Swiss Cadre Organisation SCO
• President of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Business Federation – Finance

Chief Executive Officer