The Swiss private bank is naming a new global head of personnel and granting them a wider say in group matters, finews.asia has learned.
The Swiss private bank is naming Christèle Hiss Holliger as its global head of human resources, a person familiar with the matter told finews.asia. Hiss Holliger, who currently oversees the area for Pictet's wealth management activities, will join an executive committee made up of the partners and roles like finance and risk.
She is to replace Bernd Uhe, who will become Pictet's group corporate secretary and head of organization, a sort of internal consulting team of Pictet. Uhe is a 15-year veteran of the wealth manager who previously worked for McKinsey.
Steep Hiring
A spokesman for Pictet confirmed the appointments. Hiss Holliger, who along with Uhe already is one of 42 equity partners in the bank, joined Pictet's asset management arm in 1998 as head of institutional clients in Geneva, before advancing to CEO of the same division's Singapore activities.
As the flagship wealth unit's head of human resources for the last four years, she has been a linchpin in an assertive hiring push under the unit's co-heads Boris Collardi and first Rémy Best, then Marc Pictet from last year. Pictet has nabbed more than 100 bankers, many of them former associates of Collardi from Julius Baer, which he ran until 2017.
