Board of Directors
Peter Haist has served as InCore Bank Ltd’s Chairman of the Board of Directors since January 2020. As a member of the Executive Board from 2017 to 2019, he was responsible for strategy and business development. Since 2006, he has been the CEO of the SOBACO Group, where he also held various other senior positions from 1995 onward, including Head of Marketing, Sales & Key Account Management. Prior to this, he managed the IT department of Bankers Trust Zurich for five years after working at JPMorgan Zurich as a project manager, analyst and programmer for five years. Peter is a trained banker and has a degree in business information systems. He also has a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ZHF in Business Consulting. He is currently a board member at SOBACO Holding AG and SOBACO Solutions AG and he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SOBACO Betax Ltd, Regensburg (Germany).
Hans G. Syz-Witmer has served as Vice Chairman of InCore Bank Ltd since 2009 (Chairman from 2007 to 2009). He has also been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maerki Baumann & Co. AG since 1998. Since 2016, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maerki Baumann Holding AG (Chairman from 2007 to 2016), which holds a significant stake in InCore Bank Ltd He has been a member of the Board of Directors of CHSZ-Holding AG since 2003. As an active entrepreneur, Hans G. Syz-Witmer also holds various seats on other boards of directors and foundation boards, including Aquila & Co. AG (member of the Board of Directors), Turnus Film AG (member of the Board of Directors), Schulthess Klinik (Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees), Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich (Vice Chairman and Treasurer), the Kongresshaus Foundation (Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees), Genossenschaft zum Baugarten (Chairman of the Board of Trustees), Friedrich Steinfels AG (member of the Board of Directors), the Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation (member of the Board of Trustees) and Arthouse Movie Commercio AG (member of the Board of Directors).
Christian Wunderlin is a Federally Certified Accounting and Controlling Expert. He has a Federal Diploma in Business Information Systems, an MBA from the University of Rochester, a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Bradford (finance) and a PhD from the University of Bern (business information systems). Christian has more than 20 years of managerial experience in the IT industry. From 2007 to 2015, he was a full-time lecturer at the Institute of Financial Services Zug IFZ (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), alongside which he also served on various boards of SMEs. Due to current developments in the field of cybercrime, Christian has undergone further training to become a CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CCSP Certified Cloud Security Professional, CISM Certified Information Security Manager and IT Security Officer BSI. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bank Cler, where he also holds the position of Chairman of the Risk Committee. In addition, he is a member of the boards of directors of AMAG Leasing AG, Aveniq AG and Netcloud AG. Christian also serves on the boards of various medium-sized companies in the finance, IT and architecture/real estate sectors.
Amedeo C. Vaccani has a degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the founder and a managing partner of A. Vaccani & Partner AG, which has been providing management consulting and cross-border M&A services since 1992. He has also managed a Swiss private equity investment company since 1996. Prior to this, he worked for ABB Ltd. as Business Area Manager Resource Recovery, and at ABB W+E Umwelttechnik AG as its CEO. Amedeo currently holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors at SOBACO Holding Ltd, at SOBACO Solutions Ltd and at Rhincodon Corporation Ltd.
Daniel Diemers studied economics and social sciences at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), and he has completed a PhD on the subject of virtual communities. He is also the author of several books, studies and specialist articles. With more than 20 years of experience as a strategy consultant, he accompanies businesses on their journey into the digital future and helps them to develop growth strategies. Daniel is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SNGLR, a deep tech lab, consulting firm and venture capital fund focused on exponential technologies such as longevity, smart mobility/smart cities, artificial intelligence and blockchain/metaverse. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of TAAL Distributed Information Technologies Inc (CNSX:TAAL), FiCAS AG and Flov Technologies AG, and he also serves on the Expert Council of the Swiss Blockchain Federation.
Catrina Luchsinger is a specialist in the field of financial market and corporate law and passed her bar exam in Zurich in 1995. After studying at the University of Zurich, where her thesis was on «The Distribution of Fund Shares», she worked as a lawyer in Zurich. In 2007 she became a partner of the law firm MLL, where she still works today. Catrina Luchsinger has years of experience in advising financial service providers and investment companies, in particular in corporate, contractual or regulatory matters as well as in the transformation of business areas. She holds various management and supervisory positions including Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baader Helvea AG (Zurich), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nova Property Fund Management AG (Zurich), Member of the Board of Directors of Jungfraubahn Holding AG and Member of the Board of Trustees of Sanitas Krankenversicherung.
Executive Board
Mark Dambacher has served as Chief Executive Officer of InCore Bank Ltd since March 2015. Prior to this, he held various senior specialist and management positions and was most recently responsible for Compliance & Risk Control, Relationship Management and Accounting for around three years. Before joining the newly founded InCore Bank Ltd as Head of Process Management in 2006, he spent many years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior manager in the Global Risk Management Services division and at KPMG as a senior consultant in the Financial Services division. Mark is a trained banker and has an MSc in Business Engineering. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He does not currently serve on any boards.
René Hertach joined our company in April 2019 as Head of Transaction Banking and Deputy CEO. Prior to this, from 2007, he served as Head of IT. In this role, he was responsible for IT operations and development at InCore Bank Ltd, which was created in 2007 from Maerki Baumann through a spin-off to form a new company. Before joining InCore Bank, he served as Head of Information Technology at Maerki Baumann for over 16 years and previously spent around seven years at SIX, where he trained as an IT systems programmer and obtained qualifications as a mainframe systems engineer and network architect. He does not currently serve on any boards.
As Head Back Office, Fabian Bieli is responsible for securities administration, securities settlement, and payment transactions/central register. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration he successfully completed the MAS in Leadership and Management in 2012. He acquired his extensive knowledge while working in senior positions in various back-office departments at a large Swiss private bank, most recently at InCore Bank Ltd since 2009. He does not currently serve on any boards.
As Head of Financials, Compliance & Risk Control, Bruno Meier helps to ensure that we can serve our clients with the highest standards in security. He has more than 25 years of experience at international financial institutions and has experience in leading the compliance department. He has helped to create various products in the digital asset space and has extensive experience in the areas of controlling and risk management. Bruno is also the CEO and a board member of the Swiss Risk Association. He has a master’s degree in materials science from ETH Zurich and has completed an executive education program in corporate finance at London Business School.