The physicist Reto Himmel (Master’s Degree in Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, 1982) graduated from the Harvard Business School in 1987 with an MBA. He began his career in 1982 as a software engineer with Brown Boveri & Co. in Baden, before joining Credit Suisse in 1985. From 1990 to 1994 he went on to head the General Secretariat at Bank Leu, where he was also in charge of corporate planning. He later served as Chief of Staff of the Investment and Trading division at Credit Suisse. In 1997 Mr Himmel became a member of the Executive Board of ABN AMRO (Switzerland), assuming responsibility for the bank’s logistics operations. He took on the position of Head of Operations at UBS Warburg Switzerland in August 2001.

Reto Himmel has served as Group Chief Technology & Operations Officer for Swiss Life since January 2003.

Other appointments:

• Swiss Financial Market Services, Member of the Board of Directors
• Technopark Zurich, Member of the Board of Trustees