Avaloq - essential for banking

Enrico Ardielli, Chief Financial Officer
Born 1964, Dr. oec. publ. University of Zurich

Since February 2003: Member of the Executive Board
Since November 2002: Chief Financial Officer
Avaloq Evolution AG
1995 - 2002: Head Corporate Controlling & Accounting, Manager, Swiss Life
1994 - 1995: Division Controller Zellweger Luwa Group
1990 - 1993: Auditor Revisuisse Price Waterhouse

Avaloq's success is based on its human capital, lean structures and good-shaped finance. It is my goal to balance these three piles in order to optimize their interaction.

Roger Wechsler, Chief Business Development Officer
Born in 1967, Master of economics (University of St. Gallen)

Since 2000: Member of the Executive Board
Chief Business Development Avaloq Evolution AG
1994 - 2000: Self-employed consultant in the field of capital market logistics
1992 - 1994: Management consultant for Pricewaterhouse.

"The most successful Avaloq-sellers are our existing customers. That's why customer satisfaction is for me the key to success."

Francisco Fernandez, CEO
Born in 1962, Master of computer science ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) & BWI

Since July 2000: CEO Avaloq Evolution AG
Since 1991: Member of the Executive Board , Architect of the Avaloq Banking System, Project Leader for numerous Avaloq roll-out projects
Since 1989: Software Engineer for Avaloq Evolution AG

"I would like to cultivate a management culture in which every single employee takes pleasure in creating the maximum added value for himself and for our customer. After all, the customer buys only added value."

Adrian Bult, COO
Born in 1959, lic.oec University of St Gallen

From/since November 2007: Chief Operating Officer, Member of the Executive Board
2006 – 2007: Swisscom Mobile AG, Bern, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of Swisscom AG
2001 – 2006: Swisscom Fixnet AG, Bern, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of Swisscom AG
1997 – 2000: Swisscom AG, Chief Information Officer, Member of the Executive Board
1984 – 1997: Career at IBM in various sales and markting positions, from 1995 on Head of Banking in Switzerland, Austria and Eastern Europe and Member of the Executive Board of IBM (Switzerland)

„ Avaloq stands for outstanding banking software and excellent service. We serve our customers - because good service is a service to our valued customers.“

Ronald Strässler, Chief Special Tasks
Born in 1967, dipl. Informatik Ing. ETH

Since 2003: Member of the Executive Board, Chief Special Tasks
2000 - 2002: Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Responsible for application design of Avaloq Evolution AG
1993 - 1999: Software developer and project leader for Avaloq Evolution AG Architect of the Avaloq Banking System

"Grasping the essence of Banking in the form of a model was and is a creative act. It requires deep understanding. The rest is sound skill."

Peter Schöpfer, Chief Marketing Officer
Born in 1957, MBA at the University of Fribourg

Since January 2006: Chief Marketing Officer and Deputy CEO, Member of the Executive Board
2004 - 2005: T-Systems do Brazil Ltda., Regional Manager Brazil/South America
2000 - 2004: CEO at T-Systems Switzerland AG,
Build-up of country division
1998 - 2000: CEO Tesion (Swisscom Investment, Stuttgart)
1986 - 1998: Career at Swisscom AG,
Head Company Build-Up

“We are in the business in order to win. Whether we win or not is on our current and future clients to decide. If we succeed as a team in offering an appreciable competitive advantage to our clients, they will announce Avaloq the winner. To win together with our clients is incredibly pleasant, and forms the basis for our success in the future."

Claudia Bohnet, Chief Technology Officer
Born in 1964, diploma in Computer Science, University of Dortmund , Germany

Since September 2005: Chief Technology Officer, Member of the Executive Board
2004 - 2005: Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd.: CIO, Member of the Executive Committee
2000 - 2004: Novartis AG, Basel: Member of the Global Pharma IT Committee & Member of the Corporate Executive Group; later as Global Functional Information Manager and Head of the company's global CRM strategy.
1996-2000: Novartis Pharma AG: Head Collaborative Technologies, later as Head Global New Technologies
1991 - 1996: Hoffmann-La Roche: Technical Project Leader and System Engineer, later as Head Office Systems Group / Chemical IT

"I believe, that one of the keys to further successful growth of Avaloq lies in the appropriate amount of process structures ensuring efficient workflows and customer oriented product development. At the same time, we need to provide sufficient leeway for the creativity and dynamics in software development.”