Partners

Renato Ghidini

Mario Pirola


Director, Partner

Partner


Renato Ghidini started his career in 1982 as an apprentice at the Swiss Bank Corporation in Basel. In 1987, he worked for one year as an assistant at an Agent de Change on the Paris Stock Exchange. After various trading activities in the stock exchange department of the Bankverein and a part-time visit to the Basel University of Applied Sciences, he set up the sales department for derivative products. In 1992, he moved to what was then Ciba-Geigy, where he was responsible for the company's equity investments and the pension fund. Following the merger into Novartis and the transfer of responsibility for the pension fund's equity investments, the move back to what is now UBS took place in 1997. He was responsible for the establishment of a consulting and sales department for external asset managers. In 2003 he switched to an asset manager and in 2010 he became self-employed with Key Advisors AG.

Mario Pirola continued to work in a private client department at Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in Basel after completing his apprenticeship. After 8 years at the SBC, he made a brief detour to what was then ABN in 1989, where he worked for institutional clients at the head office in Amsterdam. In 1990 he moved to Trafina Privatbank and worked for 20 years in various positions. In the end, he was responsible for the entire bank as CEO. After three years with an asset manager, he joined Key Advisors AG in 2014 as a partner. In his daily work, he relies on a trilogy of reason, heart and gut feeling.


Daniel Wiser

Gérald Christe


Partner

Partner


Daniel Wiser has a long career in various functions in the financial sector. After several years of experience in foreign exchange and derivatives trading, he joined the portfolio management team of the internationally active Geneva-based private bank Mirabaud & Cie SA (formerly Banque Jenni & Cie SA) in Basel in 2001. From 2006, Daniel Wiser concentrated on the development and support of Swiss and international private and institutional clients.

Gérald Christe has many years of professional experience in various management positions in the financial sector. He began his professional career in 1975 with an internship at the former Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in Basel. In 1979, Gérald Christe moved to London for two years, where he also worked for Swiss Bank Corporation. From 1981 to 2008, he served wealthy private banking clients in Basel. In 2009, he moved from UBS to the internationally active Geneva-based private bank Mirabaud & Cie SA, where he served Swiss, French and Belgian private and institutional clients.


Marcel Reber

Partner

Marcel Reber successfully completed his commercial apprenticeship at Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in Basel in 1989. He then continued to work at the same bank, initially in a private client department. Later, as deputy head, he was responsible for setting up the department that looked after external asset managers. In 1999, he moved to an external asset manager. He became a partner in 2002 and was the owner of the same asset management company from 2012 to 2022. He mainly looked after Swiss and German private clients.