People Moves
Vontobel Division Chooses New Head
The part of Vontobel focusing on serving North American clients has a new chief.
Vontobel senior
manager Patrice Humbel is to oversee the firm’s wealth management
business that serves North America clients, Vontobel Swiss Wealth
Advisors AG, aka VSWA.
Humbel has been head of the Geneva office of VSWA for five years.
It is one of four locations - alongside Zurich, Dallas and
New York - in which the wealth management firm operates. Humbel
is a Swiss national with more than 30 years of experience in the
field of wealth management, which he mainly acquired in the US in
management functions at Morgan Stanley and UBS, among others,
before joining VSWA in 2013.
At the same time, Roger Scherer, chief operating officer of VSWA,
who is managing the business on an interim basis, has been named
deputy CEO of VSWA.
“With Patrice E Humbel at the helm, we want to take the business
with North American clients to a new level and systematically
continue its expansion. North America is one of Vontobel’s growth
markets,” Georg Schubiger, chairman of the Board of VSWA and head
of Vontobel Wealth Management, said.
VSWA, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, is a SEC-registered
Investment Advisor and has the status of Exempt International
Advisor in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia,
Ontario and Québec.