A long-standing Swiss banker is joining the board of Banque Cantonale Vaudoise. The trading and sales veteran is already a director at family-controlled Union Bancaire Privée.
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise will propose Eftychia Fischer to its board at its next shareholder meeting in April, the local government-backed lender said in a statement on Thursday. She is a trading veteran who already sits on the board of Union Bancaire Privée, a Genevan wealth manager controlled by the de Picciotto family, and that of Swiss insurer Vaudoise Assurance Holding.
At BCV, Fischer replaces Reto Donatsch, who is nearing mandatory retirement age (70). She is a dual Greek and Swiss citizen with a long career in Swiss private banking: she worked for Julius Baer, EFG International, and J.P. Morgan after beginning her career trading interest rate derivatives at Société Générale Strauss Turnbull in London.
UBP hired her as its treasury and trading boss in 2010, and also led the private bank's asset management arm from 2012 to 2015. Fischer, who studied physics at Imperial College London, joined UBP's board four years ago.
