Since his appointment as CEO of Avaloq, Juerg Hunziker is busy rebuilding the management of the banking IT company. He wants to move the company closer to the important markets and to his customers.
When Avaloq founder Francisco Fernandez resigned as CEO in December to focus on his role as chairman, the banking software company started to reshuffle the management. In came Juerg Hunziker as new CEO and he has now made his first appointments to the executive.
Chris Beukers (pictured below) will take over as regional manager Asia Pacific, Tobias Unger as regional manager Switzerland and Liechtenstein and Brian Hurdis will assume the duties of a chief service delivery officer, the company said in a statement today.
The company hopes to improve the standardization within Avaloq and create a basis for accelerated growth. With the appointments to the management, Avaloq also emphasizes it proximity to the market and to its customers globally.
Beukers only just joined Avaloq, having previously worked for Pactera International. He has a quarter of a century of experience in the Asian market.
Executive Board
Unger has been with the company since 2016. He was the chief operating officer of Falcon Private Bank for years and expected to move up to the CEO position eventually. Following the revelations about the involvement of Falcon in the 1MDB scandal, Unger left the company.
The new group executive board of Avaloq has eight members:
- Juerg Hunziker, CEO
- Dean Gluyas, chief financial officer
- Pascal Foehn, chief operating officer
- Chris Beukers, regional manager APAC
- Tobias Unger, regional manager Switzerland and Liechtenstein
- Markus Groeninger, chief markets officer
- Thomas Beck, chief technology officer
- Brian Hurdis, chief service delivery officers
Ronald Straessler, group chief GPN development, and Peter Schoepfer, group chief advisory officer are no longer members of the executive board.
