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Only one person sets the tone in St. Gallen: Guy Lachappelle. The president of the Swiss Raiffeisen Group determines who gets up and who leaves. Then Heinz Huber, the CEO, explains.
Now King Lachappelle wants to go down in the history of the financial center as a great sponsor of women. This morning her Raiffeisen announced the election of a second woman to the leadership.
The 53-year-old woman is named Helen Fricker, she has traveled an unusual path. She doesn’t come from the bench, but from the classroom: as an elementary school teacher in a nest in St. Gallen.
That was in 1991, after which he took a five-year hiatus. Instead of continuing to educate children, Fricker trained bankers from then on.
At ZKB she became a “management trainer and leadership coach”, as stated in her CV.
For four years, Fricker trained employees and bosses at the largest cantonal bank, then moved to the so-called “St. Gallen Consulting Center”, where he became a project manager.
In 2011, 9 years ago, Fricker finally joined Raiffeisen Switzerland. There she made her way, from “Head of Management Development” (until 2015) to “Strategy Consultant” (until 2017).
Finally, in 2018, Fricker came to the fore. His experience in the real banking business therefore covers only the last two years.
However, he now directs the decisive sentence, up to the management of the group, where the director assumes the department of “Raiffeisenbank Services”.
From primary to the maximum woman of the third force in the country.
The career of the man who until now headed Fricker’s department is exactly the opposite.
It is Philippe Lienhard, an experienced manager who, after studying law in Zurich, learned the banking business from scratch and then moved up the career ladder step by step.
After two years at AWD, Lienhard moved to CS, became a private client advisor and began his career: Head of Private Clients of Schaffhausen, then Head of Thurgau-Schaffhausen.
7 years ago, Lienhard moved to the top of the Raiffeisenbank Mittelthurgau.
When Guy Lachappelle and Heinz Huber took over, Lienhard rose to the top operational management body of Raiffeisen Switzerland.
He has now “decided for personal reasons … to resign from his post on October 31, 2020 and leave Raiffeisen Switzerland.”
Banker out, educator in. Behind it is laughter. Even if Ms. Fricker should be on top: Basler wants to score points with more women at the big banks.
