Board of Directors (BoD)

Peter Kurer was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2008 and thereafter appointed as Chairman.
Peter Kurer became a member of the Group Executive Board in 2002. He has been the Group General Counsel since 2001, when he joined UBS. Between 1991 and 2001 he was a partner at the Homburger law firm in Zurich. Between 1980 and 1990 he was with Baker & McKenzie in Zurich, first as associate, later as partner, having been a law clerk at the District Court of Zurich. Mr. Kurer graduated as a doctor iuris from the University of Zurich and was admitted as attorney-at-law in Zurich. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Chicago and was born on 28 June 1949. He is a Swiss citizen.

Stephan Haeringer was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2004 and thereafter appointed as Executive Vice Chairman. He chairs the Corporate Responsibility Committee.
Prior to this, Stephan Haeringer served as Deputy President of the Group Executive Board, a position he held between 2002 and 2004. Between 2000 and 2002, he was CEO of UBS Switzerland and the Private and Corporate Clients business. In 1998, following the UBS-SBC merger, he was appointed the Division Head of Private and Corporate Clients. He originally joined the former Union Bank of Switzerland in 1967, assuming a broad variety of responsibilities within the firm – among them Chief Executive Officer Region Switzerland, Division Head Private Banking and Institutional Asset Management and Head of the Financial Division. Between 1967 and 1988, Mr. Haeringer was assigned various management roles in the areas of Investment Counseling, Specialized Investments, Portfolio Management, Securities Administration, and Collateral Loans. He received professional training at Williams de Broe Hill Chaplin & Cie, London, and at Goldman Sachs & Co. and Brown Brothers Harriman in New York. Mr. Haeringer was born on 6 December 1946. He is a Swiss citizen.

Ernesto Bertarelli was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2002. He is a member of the Nominating Committee.
Since 1996, Ernesto Bertarelli has been the Chief Executive Officer of Serono International SA, Geneva. The company was sold to Merck KGaA, Germany, in 2007. He started his career with Serono in 1985 and held several positions in sales and marketing. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he served for five years as Deputy CEO. Mr. Bertarelli holds a bachelor of science from the Babson College Boston and a Harvard MBA. He was born on 22 September 1965. He is a Swiss citizen.

Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2006. She chairs the Nominating Committee.
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler has been a partner at the Schellenberg Wittmer law firm and a professor of international private law at the University of Geneva since 1996. From 1985 to 1995 she was a partner at the Baker & McKenzie law firm. She is a member of the Geneva Bar (since 1976) and of the New York State Bar (since 1981) and is known worldwide for her expertise in international arbitration. Ms. Kaufmann-Kohler completed her legal studies at the University of Basel in 1977 and received her doctorate from the same institution in 1979. She was born on 3 November 1952. She is a Swiss citizen.

Rolf A. Meyer was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in 1998. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee.
Rolf A. Meyer has been a member of the Boards of UBS and its predecessor, Union Bank of Switzerland, since 1992. He was Chairman and CEO of Ciba Specialty Chemicals Ltd. until November 2000. Today, he holds several board memberships. He first joined Ciba-Geigy Group in 1973 as a financial analyst, and subsequently became Group Company Controller in Johannesburg, South Africa, Head of Strategic Planning and Control in Basel, Head of Finance and Information Systems in Ardsley, N.Y., and later Chief Financial Officer of the Group. After the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz to create Novartis, he led the spin-off of Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Mr. Meyer graduated in Political Science (Ph.D.) and holds a Master of Business Administration (lic.oec. HSG). He was born on 31 October 1943. He is a Swiss citizen.

Helmut Panke was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2004. He is a member of the Compensation Committee.
Helmut Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. He subsequently assumed management functions in corporate planning, organization and corporate strategy. Before his appointment as Chairman, he was a member of BMW’s Board of Management from 1996. Between 1993 and 1996, he was Chairman and CEO of BMW Holding Corporation in the US. Today, he holds several board memberships. Mr. Panke graduated from the University of Munich with a doctoral degree in physics (Ph.D.) and was assigned to the University of Munich and the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research before joining McKinsey in Düsseldorf and Munich as a consultant. He was born on 31 August 1946. He is a German citizen.

David Sidwell was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2008.
He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Morgan Stanley in New York between March 2004 and 2007. Before joining Morgan Stanley he was with JPMorgan Chase & Co. He joined JPMorgan Chase & Co in 1984 in New York where he held a number of different positions in his 20 years of service including Controller and Chief Financial Officer of the Investment Bank. From 1975 until 1984 he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in both London and New York. Mr. Sidwell graduated from Cambridge University in England and is a Chartered Accountant. He was born in England on 28 March 1953. He has both British and US citizenship.

Peter Spuhler was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2004. He is a member of the Corporate Responsibility Committee.
Peter Spuhler is the owner of Stadler Rail AG (Switzerland), which he acquired in 1989 when it was a small firm with 18 employees. Today the Stadler Rail Group has more than 2,500 staff and is an internationally successful light railway vehicle business. Since 1997, Peter Spuhler has taken over a number of companies and founded new units within the Stadler Rail Group, mainly in Switzerland and in Germany. Mr. Spuhler joined Stadler AG in 1987 as an employee after studying economics at the University of St. Gallen. He was born on 9 January 1959. He is a Swiss citizen.

Peter Voser was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2005. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee.
Peter Voser has been Chief Financial Officer of the Royal Dutch Shell plc in London since 2004. Between 2002 and 2004, he was Chief Financial Officer of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) in Switzerland. Between 1982 and 2002, he worked for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, holding various assignments in Switzerland, UK, Argentina and Chile. Mr. Voser graduated at the University of Applied Sciences, Zurich. He was born on 29 August 1958. He is a Swiss citizen.

Lawrence A. Weinbach was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2001. He is a member of the Audit Committee.
Lawrence A. Weinbach is a partner of the Yankee Hill Capital Management LLC, a private equity firm based in Southport, CT (USA). He was Executive Chairman of Unisys Corporation until January 2006. From 1997 to 2004 he was Chairman, President and CEO of Unisys Corporation. From 1961 to 1997 he was with Arthur Andersen / Andersen Worldwide as Managing Partner, and was Chief Executive of Andersen Worldwide from 1989 to 1997, Chief Operating Officer from 1987 to 1989, and Managing Partner of the New York office from 1983. He was elected to partnership at Arthur Andersen in 1970 and became Managing Partner of the Stamford, Connecticut, office in 1974 and Partner in charge of the accounting and audit practice in New York from 1980 to 1983. Mr. Weinbach is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor of science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was born on 8 January 1940. He is a US citizen.

Joerg Wolle was elected to the Board of Directors at the AGM in April 2006. He is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of the Nominating Committee.
Since 2002, Joerg Wolle has been President and CEO of DKSH Holding Ltd. From 2000 until the merger with Diethelm Keller in 2002, he was President and CEO of SiberHegner Holding AG. He completed his studies in engineering in 1983 and received his doctorate in 1987 from the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. Joerg Wolle was born on 19 April 1957. He is a German citizen.