People based in Switzerland
| Name | Biography |
|---|---|
| Mr Peter Widmer | Mr Peter Widmer was Chairman of HSBC Private Bank between 2013 and 2012. |
| Mr Andreas Koopmann | Andreas N. Koopmann has been a member of the Board and the Risk Committee since the AGM in 2009. From 1982 to 2009, Mr. Koopmann held various leading positions at Bobst Group S.A., Lausanne, one of the world’s leading suppliers of equipment and services to packaging manufacturers. He was a member of its Board of Directors, from 1998 to 2002, and Group CEO, from 1995 to May 2009. Mr. Koopmann holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1976) and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland (1978). From 2010 until February 2012, Mr. Koopmann was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alstom (Suisse) SA. Since 2010, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Georg Fischer AG where he took over the presidency of the Board of Directors in March 2012. Since 2003, Mr. Koopmann has been a member of the Board of Directors of Nestlé SA, its first Vice-Chairman and a member of its Chairman’s and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Koopmann is also a member of the Board of Directors of the CSD Group, an engineering consultancy enterprise in Switzerland and served as the Vice-Chairman of Swissmem (until March 2012), the association of Swiss Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Industries. From 1995 to 1999, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse First Boston. He was a member of Credit Suisse’s Advisory Board from 1999 to 2007. |
