Urs Seiler was elected to the Board of Directors of Habib Bank AG Zurich at the 2012 Annual General Meeting and was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board in April 2015. He became a member of the Audit Committee and member of the Risk and Control Committee in 2013. From 2002 to 2012 Urs Seiler was a founding partner of Bugmann, Stocker, Seiler Capital Partners AG (based in Zurich), a company providing advisory services in the areas of capital markets, finance, general management consulting, real estate and corporate restructuring, including the take-over of directorships. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of PBS Private Bank Switzerland Ltd. (he stepped down from this function in 2002). He was a member of the Board at the Republic New York Corporate (New York) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Republic Bank of New York (Switzerland) from 1998 to 1999. Prior to that, he spent 15 years at UBS AG, holding various top executive and senior management positions, including: Executive Vice President International, Chairman Emerging Markets (Europe, Africa, Middle East), and a member of the Group Management Board (he stepped down from this function in 1998). From 1970 to 1984 he worked for Credit Suisse (Zurich), serving as Vice-President in the foreign exchange division. He began his career at Bank of Nova Scotia (Toronto). His banking career has also included teaching as a lecturer at the Swiss Finance Institute in Zurich from 1986 to 1991. Urs Seiler completed his studies as a Swiss Certified Banking Expert in 1968.
- Swiss, born 1949