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.
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.