UBS has hired a financial and trusts expert with an aristocratic European background to look after wealthy German and Austrian clients.
Towa-Christina Graefin von Bismark has been working at UBS in Zurich an as executive director since the start of October. The Swiss bank confirmed the hire to finews.com.
She forms part of the bank’s Swiss team in Zurich responsible for the offshore business with ultra-wealthy German and Austrian clients. She manages the trusts and non-governmental organizations.
Von Bismark joined from the Vienna-based Bank Gutmann, where for two years she led the competence center for trusts and non-profit-organizations. Prior to that she worked as an economist and lawyer at Bethmann Bank.
Stellar Connections
The Finland-born banker with German-Swedish roots specialized in trust management at the European Business School. She has built an extensive network of exclusive contacts: for example, she is a trustee of the Drivers & Business Club Munich. The private club offers members an exclusive ambience for meeting personalities interested in automobiles and motor racing. This exclusive circle also includes for example Leopold Prinz of Bavaria, Wolfgang Porsche or Conrado Dornier, an offspring of the German aircraft constructor.
As part of her involvement in the Amandla Edufootball organisation, von Bismark worked on projects enabling the building of football pitches in slum areas, as reported by the «Salzburger Nachrichten» (in German, behind paywall). Former German goalkeeper Oliver «Olli» Kahn is also involved in the project.
