Vice‑Chairwoman of the Board of Directors Carole Schmied-Syz (b.1963), Dr iur., has been a member of our private bank’s Board of Directors since 1998 and is Vice-Chairwoman since 2005. Since 2016 she has been Chairwoman of Maerki Baumann Holding Ltd. (she was Vice-Chairwoman from 2007 to 2016) and a member of the Board of Directors of CHSZ-Holding AG since 2003.Carole Schmied-Syz has moreover been a member of the Board of Directors of BVZ Holding AG since 2024. Additionally, she is active as an academic lawyer in the fields of contract and liability law. She used to be politically active as well: for example, as a member of the Zurich Constitutional Council. She holds a number of other mandates: she is a trustee of the Right To Play Foundation, the Wilhelm Doerenkampf-Foundation, and in the cultural field she is a member of the Board of the Friends of the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich. Furthermore, she chairs our bank’s art committee.