Goldman Sachs snapped up a prominent former Credit Suisse banker as a director for its Swiss bank.

Patricia Horgan (pictured above) has taken a seat on the board of Goldman Sachs' bank in Switzerland, the U.S. bank said in a statement (in German). The unit holds Goldman Sachs' private banking activities in Zurich, according to the statement. 

Horgan spent a nearly 40-year career in banking and capital markets, including senior roles at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS. Her experience ranges from private investment product in private banking, leveraged finance, European corporate banking, structured trade, commodity and export financing, and structured lending.

She also sits the advisory board of Birmingham-based Aston Business School as well as serves on that of non-profit organizations Schutzfaktor-M and Room to Read.