Geneva Breakfast Briefing: Switzerland – will it remain a key centre of wealth management?

Jean-François is Market Head - Managing Director Swiss Domestic,  Geneva Location Head with HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA.   He was previously with UBS AG,  first as part of GAM, the alternative asset manager  in London and then in Zurich as Co-Head of Strategic Analysis for UBS Global Wealth Management .  Prior to this he was with LEK Consulting, advising financial services and private equity firms.  He started his career with Barclays in the United Kingdom.

Tom Burroughes is group editor of ClearView Financial Media, publisher of WealthBriefing, WealthBriefingAsia and Family Wealth Report. Tom has worked at ClearView since 2008, reporting on news stories, interviewing industry leaders, writing features and comment pieces, and has spoken at conferences in London, Guernsey and Vienna, among other locations. He has discussed the industry’s issues on Reuters television and the BBC. Previously, Tom was wealth management editor of The Business, the weekly UK magazine run by the Telegraph Group, from 2007 to 2008. Before that, he was a correspondent in various roles at Reuters, the global newswire. Between 1994 and 2000, he was a reporter for Market News International, a New York-headquartered newswire.

Chris Hamblin has edited numerous publications in the compliance trade press since 1997, among them Compliance Monitor, Money Laundering Bulletin and Fraud Intelligence, writing for all those titles even after his departure. He was the commissioning editor at Complinet between 2000 and 2009 and set up the web-firm's anti-money-laundering website in 2001. He is now the editor of Compliance Matters, Offshore Red and IFC World.

Osmond Plummer, is a Geneva-based wealth management expert active internationally as a trainer, coach and adviser of wealth management professionals. He is a senior lecturer in finance at the London Institute of Banking & Finance and visiting faculty at EU Business School in Geneva. Osmond worked in private banking in Guernsey, Hong Kong and Dubai prior to moving to Geneva in 1999. The Swiss correspondent for WealthBriefing and the founder of www.wealthcoaching.ch, Osy holds an MBA from Warwick University Business School and PGCHE in Banking & Finance. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Jorge is Vice President, Digital Banking Strategy Advisor with JP Morgan (Suisse). Jorge has wide ranging technical expertise up to board level spanning international Private Banking, investment strategy, and social media.

With banking system implementation experience in 17 countries gained as a Senior IBM Managing Consultant and inside major banks and financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Julius Baer, Credit Lyonnais, Credit Suisse, and China Merchant Bank.