Pascal Kiener

Mr. Pascal Kiener is a Chief Executive Officer at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, a Chairman at Fonds de Prévoyance en Faveur du Personnel de la BCV and a Member-Foundation Board at Swiss Finance Institute. He is on the Board of Directors at BCV Foundation, Fondation EPFL Plus, Fondation Foot Avenir, Fondation Genève Place Financière, La Chambre vaudoise du commerce et de l'industrie, Swiss Bankers Association and Verband Schweizerischer Kantonalbanken. Mr. Kiener joined BCV as CFO on 1 June 2003 and was appointed CEO on 1 May 2008. Between 1985 and 1991, Mr. Kiener worked as an engineer for Fides Informatics in Zurich and Hewlett Packard in Geneva. In 1993, he joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In 2000, he was made a partner and a member of the Management Committee of McKinsey Switzerland. He acquired experience in financial services and banking in particular during these years as an advisor for leading financial institutions in Switzerland and other European countries. He managed large projects involving strategy, risk management, controlling, and business process re-engineering. Furthermore, he received his graduate degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.