1961, London, UK

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2009

Committees

Member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee

Education

Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), UK

Professional activity

Christopher M. Chambers began his professional career in investment banking, before becoming Chief Executive Officer of global hedge fund Man Investments, which he left in 2005.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Leonteq AG, Zurich

Unlisted companies: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oxford Sciences Enterprises PLC, Oxford, UK

Key skills

Leadership, Strategy, Real Estate, Asset Management, Finance, M&A, Risk Management

1968, Meilen

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2019

Committees

Chairwoman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee

Education

Lic. iur., University of Zurich; admitted to the Zurich bar; LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law, USA

Professional activity

Gabrielle Nater-Bass has been working for Homburger, a leading Swiss corporate law firm, since 1997. She became a partner in 2006. She has many years’ experience conducting proceedings before national courts and courts of arbitration, both in Switzerland and abroad. As a member of Homburger’s specialist real estate team, she has extensive knowledge of infrastructure projects and real estate transactions.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: none

Unlisted companies: Member of the Board of Directors of LGT Bank AG and LGT Bank (Schweiz) AG

Key skills

Legal, M&A, Risk Management, Strategy, IT/Cybersecurity, Human Resources

1966, Berne

«Turn challenges into opportunities.»

Position

Member of the Executive Board
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG

Education

Lawyer

Professional activity

Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Prime Site AG since 1 January 2016. René Zahnd began his professional career at Bratschi Emch & Partner Attorneys at Law in Berne and Zurich from 1994 to 1996. Thereafter, he held the following positions: from 1996 to 1998 in Legal Services at BEKB and Dezennium AG; from 1998 to 2009 head of Legal Services and director of Project Development and member of the Executive Management at general contractor Losinger Marazzi; from 2009 to 30 October 2015 at Implenia, first as Head of Implenia Real Estate and from February 2014 as Head of Modernisation & Development, previously from 2010 as amember of the Executive Management and from 2013 as a member of the Group Executive Board of Implenia AG.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

 Stock exchange-listed companies: Member of the Supervisory Board of DIC Asset AG, Frankfurt

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1965, Altendorf

Position

Chairman of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2020

Committees

Chairman of the Sustainability Committee

Education

Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands;
Master of Business Administration, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland

Professional activity

From 1989 to 1993, Ton Büchner worked as an offshore construction project manager in Europe and Asia. From 1994 to 2017, he worked for Sulzer AG, which is listed on the stock exchange, and was its CEO from 2007 to 2011. Between 2012 and 2017, he was CEO and Chairman of the Management Board at AkzoNobel NV, a Dutch company listed on the stock exchange.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: Member of the Board of Directors of Novartis AG, Basel; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burckhardt Compression AG, Winterthur

Unlisted companies: Consultant to Ammega

Key skills

Leadership, Strategy, ESG, Sales & Marketing, Operations, M&A, Risk Management, R&D, Digitalisation

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1979, Hünenberg

«Change is inevitable! Let us use it.»

Position

Member of the Executive Board, Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Prime Site Solutions AG

Education

Master in Real Estate Management and Master in Banking and Finance from Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration

Professional activity

Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Prime Site Solutions AG since 1 May 2018 and member of the Executive Board of Swiss Prime Site AG since 1 January 2021. Anastasius Tschopp has worked at the Swiss Prime Site Group since 2014 - most recently as Head Portfolio Management and a member of the Management Board of Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG, where he shaped a portfolio worth CHF 10 billion. Prior to this, his career path led him via the development department of Zurich Airport to Credit Suisse. As Head Property Marketing Real Estate Asset Management there, he assumed management and specialist responsibility for marketing across Switzerland.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

None

1969, Horw

Position

Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2018

Committees

Chairman of the Audit Committee

Education

Business Economist, Certified Public Accountant

Professional activity

Thomas Studhalter has been at BDO in Switzerland since 2014 and became its CEO on 1 January 2021. Before joining BDO, Thomas Studhalter was a partner at KPMG.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: Member of the Board of Directors of Datacolor AG, Lucerne

Unlisted companies: Member of the Board of Directors at Bataillard AG, Rothenburg; member of the Board of Trustees of the Eisner-Stiftung, Hergiswil (comprising Kamillo Eisner-Stiftung, Hergiswil, Eisner-Stiftung, Hergiswil, Stiftung Eranaika, Hergiswil), and member of the Board of Directors of Eisner Holding AG, Hergiswil, and member of the Board of Directors of Inhag AG, Hergiswil

Key Skills

Leadership, Strategy, Finance, M&A, Risk Management, Digitalisation, Human Resources

1965, Hofheim, DE

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2021

Committees

Chairwoman of the Investment Committee
Member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee

Education

Business Economist

Professional activity

Until 2019, Barbara A. Knoflach was Global Head of BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) and Deputy CEO of BNP Paribas Real Estate S.A. in Paris. Prior to this, she worked in the financial hub of Frankfurt and held several leadership roles at SEB Asset Management, BfG Bank and Deutsche Bank. She was also a member of the Steering Committtee of the German Property Federation (ZIA) in Berlin and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). In addition, she has founded or co-founded serveral sustainable, innovative, forward-thinking platforms focusing on real estate, including LifeWorkSpace, DealEvolution and tinyBE.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: Chairwoman and Senior Independent Member of CTP NV, Amsterdam; Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Aareal Bank AG, Wiesbaden 

Unlisted companies: Managing Director of LifeWorkSpace GmbH, Hofheim am Taunus; member of the Supervisory Board of Landmarken AG, Aachen 

Key skills

Leadership, Strategy, Real Estate, Asset Management, ESG, Finance, M&A, Risk Management

1971, Zurich

«Digitalisation is one step into the future. The most important one!»

Position

Member of the Executive Board, Chief Financial Officer

Education

Dr. oec. publ. University of Zurich

Professional activity

Marcel Kucher has been Chief Financial Officer of Swiss Prime Site AG since 1 July 2021. He graduated with a doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich in 2000 before starting his professional career at McKinsey & Company. From 2004 to 2011, he was CFO and Head of Corporate Development at recruitment company a-connect. From 2011 to mid-2021 he worked for the listed Peach Property Group, from 2012 as CFO and from 2015 also as COO.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

None

«Project development means knowing the customer of tomorrow.»

Position

Chief Investment Officer

Education

Dipl. Architect
Executive MBA

Professional activity

Urs Baumann has been Chief Investment Officer of Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG since April 2021. Prior to this, he was Head Development since 2018 and Head Sustainability & Innovation since 2016 at Swiss Prime Site AG. From 2002 to 2007, Urs Baumann worked in various architectural offices in Baden, Dublin and Zurich. From 2007 to 2016, Urs Baumann was responsible for the project development business of Implenia Schweiz AG, initially in project management and from 2008 in various management functions.

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1965, Altendorf

Position

Chairman of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2020

Committees

Chairman of the Sustainability Committee

Education

Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands;
Master of Business Administration, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland

Professional activity

From 1989 to 1993, Ton Büchner worked as an offshore construction project manager in Europe and Asia. From 1994 to 2017, he worked for Sulzer AG, which is listed on the stock exchange, and was its CEO from 2007 to 2011. Between 2012 and 2017, he was CEO and Chairman of the Management Board at AkzoNobel NV, a Dutch company listed on the stock exchange.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: Member of the Board of Directors of Novartis AG, Basel; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burckhardt Compression AG, Winterthur

Unlisted companies: Consultant to Ammega

Key skills

Leadership, Strategy, ESG, Sales & Marketing, Operations, M&A, Risk Management, R&D, Digitalisation

1959, Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2022

Committees

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Investment Committee

Education

Diploma in Savings Banking Administration

Professional activity

Brigitte Walter has more than 40 years’ expertise in all areas of banking and in real estate. She was on the Board of REAL I.S. AG Gesellschaft für Immobilien Assetmanagement until mid-2019. Most recently, she was responsible for asset and fund management following a number of years working in the areas of finance and risk (including research, compliance and auditing).

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: none

Unlisted companies: Member of the Advisory Board of ASSIDUUS Development GmbH, Berlin; member of the Advisory Board of TME Associates GmbH, Munich; representative for the southern region (Bavaria) for the German Property Federation (ZIA), Berlin

Key skills

Leadership, Strategy, Real Estate, Asset and Fund Management, Finance, Risk Management, Regulatory Matters

1965, Hofheim, DE

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2021

Committees

Chairwoman of the Investment Committee
Member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee
Member of the Sustainability Committee

Education

Business Economist

Professional activity

Until 2019, Barbara A. Knoflach was Global Head of BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) and Deputy CEO of BNP Paribas Real Estate S.A. in Paris. Prior to this, she worked in the financial hub of Frankfurt and held several leadership roles at SEB Asset Management, BfG Bank and Deutsche Bank. She was also a member of the Steering Committee of the German Property Federation (ZIA) in Berlin and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). In addition, she has founded or co-founded several sustainable, innovative, forward-thinking platforms focusing on real estate, including LiveWorkSpace, DealEvolution and tinyBE.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: Chairwoman and Senior Independent Member of CTP NV, Amsterdam; Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Aareal Bank AG, Wiesbaden 

Unlisted companies: Managing Director of LifeWorkSpace GmbH, Hofheim am Taunus; member of the Supervisory Board of Landmarken AG, Aachen 

Key skills

Leadership, Strategy, Real Estate, Asset Management, ESG, Finance, M&A, Risk Management

1968, Meilen

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2019

Committees

Chairwoman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee

Education

Lic. iur., University of Zurich; admitted to the Zurich bar; LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law, USA

Professional activity

Gabrielle Nater-Bass has been working for Homburger, a leading Swiss corporate law firm, since 1997. She became a partner in 2006. She has many years’ experience conducting proceedings before national courts and courts of arbitration, both in Switzerland and abroad. As a member of Homburger’s specialist real estate team, she has extensive knowledge of infrastructure projects and real estate transactions.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: none

Unlisted companies: Member of the Board of Directors of LGT Bank AG and LGT Bank (Schweiz) AG

Key skills

Legal, M&A, Risk Management, Strategy, IT/Cybersecurity, Human Resources

1966, Binningen (BL)

Position

Member of the Board of Directors, independent member since 2023

Committees

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Investment Committee

Education

Lic. iur., University of St. Gallen; Certified Public Accountant

Professional activity

Reto Conrad has been a member of the management committees of Bachem Holding AG, Emmi Holding AG and the Coop Group since 2001. Most recently, he headed the IT, Production and Services Directorate at the Coop Group (2016 – 2022) and was previously its CFO (2012– 2016). Throughout this period, he was also a mem¬ber of the pension fund’s investment committee.

Mandates outside Swiss Prime Site

Stock exchange-listed companies: none

Unlisted companies: none

Key Skills

Leadership, Strategy, Real Estate, Finance, M&A, Risk Management, ESG, Digitalisation, IT/Cybersecurity

"Solid data protection is the basis of trust".

Function

Data protection advisor to the Swiss Prime Site Group in accordance with Art. 10 of the new Data Protection Act. She is the point of contact for the persons concerned as well as for the authorities and she advises Swiss Prime Site on data protection issues.

Training

Dipl. Bauingenieur
Master Immobilienmanagement Lawyer
Dr. iur., University of Zurich
Computer scientist NDL, University of Fribourg
lic.iur., University of Neuchâtel

Professional activity

Dr Katia Favre is a partner at the law firm Burckhardt AG. She has been advising companies on data protection issues since 2005, both in the area of compliance and in negotiations as well as in critical events such as data leaks. Dr Katia Favre also has many years of experience in advising on technical projects such as digitalisation, IT contracts, data transfers or telecommunications regulations.