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04.11.2024

Jan Weissbrodt to become SBA’s new Head of Financial Market & Regulation

  • The Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) has unanimously elected Jan Weissbrodt to become Head of Financial Market & Regulation with effect from 1 December 2024.
  • Jan Weissbrodt, who joined the SBA in 2021 and was previously Head of Tax, will thus become a member of the Executive Board.
  • He was placed in charge of Financial Market & Regulation on an interim basis in July 2024.

Jan Weissbrodt (45) has more than 19 years of experience as a specialist and manager in banking, digital technology and consulting. Prior to joining the SBA as Head of Tax in 2021, he gained valuable practical experience in the finance department of Sportradar, a global data and information service provider based in St. Gallen. Before that, he worked at KPMG in Zurich for over four years, advising various Swiss and international banking groups on matters of tax law. He began his career as a tax consultant at Wedding & Partner Steuerberatungs- und Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft mbH in Frankfurt am Main, moving to Credit Suisse in 2010.

«I am delighted that we have been able to fill the position of Head of Financial Market & Regulation internally with a proven expert in Jan Weissbrodt. With his sound economic and legal understanding of the financial sector, he is ideally placed to tackle the complex tasks he faces together with his team and to develop his division further. I would like to wish Jan all the best in his new function.»

SBA CEO Roman Studer

Jan Weissbrodt has a degree in business administration from the University of Mannheim and another in international tax law from the University of Zurich, as well as a doctorate in law from the University of Maastricht. He lives with his family in Zurich.

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