4. Executive Board and Group Executive Management

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board is re­spon­si­ble for the op­er­a­tional man­age­ment of the par­ent com­pany and, at the same time, for the man­age­ment of VP Bank Group and is des­ig­nated as Group Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment. Its tasks and com­pe­ten­cies are spec­i­fied in the OBR as well as in the func­tional de­scrip­tions for the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers of the Ex­ec­u­tive Board. The head of the Ex­ec­u­tive Board (the CEO) is re­spon­si­ble for the over­all man­age­ment of the Group and Group-wide co­or­di­na­tion.

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board mem­bers gen­er­ally meet once a week for a half-day ses­sion. Ad­di­tional meet­ings and sem­i­nars are held for the pur­pose of as­sess­ing the strat­egy and cor­po­rate de­vel­op­ments, as well as for deal­ing with an­nual plan­ning, bud­get­ing and other cur­rent is­sues.

4.1 Members of the Executive Board and Group Executive Management

As of 31 De­cem­ber 2014, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board and Group Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment were made up of the fol­low­ing in­di­vid­u­als:

  • Alfred W. Moeckli
  • Siegbert Näscher
  • Christoph_Mauchle

Al­fred W. Moeckli (born 2 July 1960; Swiss cit­i­zen) is Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of VP Bank Group (seg­ment re­port­ing, page 115).

  • Ed­u­ca­tional back­ground: banker with Fed­eral Cer­tifi­cate of Com­pe­tence 1980); Mas­ter of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion, North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity, Evanston, IL, USA (1993).
  • Pro­fes­sional back­ground: 1977–1981, as­sis­tant in the Pri­vate Bank­ing de­part­ment of Credit Su­isse, Zurich; 1981–1982, stock ex­change trader/​bro­ker at Carr, Se­bag & Co. Geneva and Lon­don; 1982–1984, se­nior sales em­ployee at Ya­maichi (Switzer­land) Ltd., Zurich and Geneva; 1984–1987, Head of Trad­ing at Banque Gutzwiller, Kurz, Bun­gener S.A. Geneva; 1993–1999, Head of Cap­i­tal Mar­kets at Citibank (Switzer­land) Zurich and Geneva; 1999–2002, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Swis­squote Bank, Gland and Scherzen­bach; 2003–2008, founder and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of INIVEST AG, Zug; 2004–2010, founder, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer and Chair­man of the Board of Di­rec­tors of Trade­jet Ltd., Zurich; 2008–2013, bank zweiplus ag, Zurich, 2008–2010 as a mem­ber of the Board of Di­rec­tors; 2010–2013 as Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer; 2008–2010, Deputy Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer and Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer of Fal­con Pri­vate Bank Ltd., Zurich; since 2013, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of VP Bank Group.
  • Other ac­tiv­i­ties and vested in­ter­ests: Deputy Chair­man of the Board of the Liecht­en­stein Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion. 

4.2 Other activities and vested interests

The other ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ex­ec­u­tive Board mem­bers and any rel­e­vant vested in­ter­ests can be found in the bi­ogra­phies pro­vided un­der sec­tion 4.1.

4.3 Management contracts

VP Bank has no man­age­ment con­tracts with third par­ties that in­volve the del­e­ga­tion of man­age­ment func­tions.