Adrian T. Keller, Chairman
Honorary Chairman of DKSH and Vice Chairman of Diethelm Keller Holding Ltd, a family holding company, and anchor shareholder of DKSH, a listed MES company in Asia. Since 2000, he is Vice Chairman of Diethelm Keller Holding Ltd, and earlier a Board Member of the predecessor company. In addition to holding various family business related Board seats, Adrian Keller is Vice Chairman of the private bank Bergos AG and is Chairman of Baur & Cie, a private real estate company. Among his pro bono involvements, he is a Trustee of Asia Society (Global) and a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss American Foundation.

Raymond J. Baer, Vice Chairman
Honorary Chairman of the Board at Julius Baer Group. He held various executive positions within the Julius Baer Group Ltd abroad and in Switzerland, lastly as Head of Private Banking Business Line, and Member of the Group Executive Board. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Julius Baer Group and a former Board Member as well as a former Member of the Committee of the Governing Board of the Swiss Bankers Association.

Patrick Balkanyi
Partner at PwC Switzerland. He is in charge of the PwC TMT practice (Technology, Media and Telecommunication) in Switzerland. Besides he is member of the Executive Board of the Commission of Swiss GAAP FER. He lived for a couple of years in Hong Kong before he moved back to Switzerland.

Michael Hengartner 
President of the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the ETH Domain. Former Dean of the Faculty of Science, and former president of the University of Zurich (UZH). He also served as president of swissuniversities, the Swiss Rectors' Conference. Michael founded and/or sat on the board of a number of start-ups, including the biotech company Devgen (co-founded 1997) and Kudelski Group (independent board member since 2020).

Nicola Forster 
President of Staatslabor and Fondation Science et Cité. As a serial civic entrepreneur, Nicola co-founded the foreign policy think tank foraus, the Staatslabor, the Global Shapers Bern (World Economic Forum) as well as the Global Diplomacy Lab. He serves on the Swiss Commission for UNESCO, the board of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and is a former president of the Swiss Society for the Public Good (Schweizerische Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft) as well as the GLP party in the Canton of Zurich. Nicola holds a MLaw from the University of Zurich and has lived in Berne, Lausanne, Montpellier, Brussels, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, New York City, Addis Ababa and Abidjan.

Estelle Oltramare
Chief of Staff at Arbor Ventures, a global, Fintech-focused VC. Prior, Estelle worked at Lombard Odier, a private bank, and Partners Group, a global private equity company, in Switzerland and Singapore, while also building her own venture portfolio since 2017. Estelle holds a B.Sc. in International Management and Chinese from SOAS in London and BNU in Beijing, an Executive Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship from LSE and an MBA from ESADE. She has lived in Zurich, Geneva, London, Paris, Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore. 

Dr. Peter F. Weibel
Chairman of the Board at Global Swiss Learning AG, a start-up, bringing premier vocational education from Switzerland to the world. Former president of UZH Foundation, the foundation of the University of Zurich. Former Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland and former Member of the Board and the Audit Committee of Credit Suisse Group. He also serves on the Senior Advisory Council of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.

Eunice Zehnder-Lai
Vice Chair of the Geberit Group, Member of the Board of DKSH and the Julius Baer Group. Her other non-profit engagements are Trustee of the Orpheum Foundation for Young Soloists and Education.org. Previously, she worked in the finance industry for LGT Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, spanning the areas of asset management, private wealth management, and corporate finance in New York, London, Hong Kong and Zurich.

Members Emeriti

Uli Sigg

Esther Heer-Zacek

Annette Schoemmel