Zurich, 19 November 2024 – Bank Julius Baer announces the hiring of four new relationship managers at its St. Gallen location, from where the bank serves the Eastern Switzerland region in its Swiss home market. 

Selami Oezkan will join Julius Baer in St. Gallen from UBS Switzerland on 1 February 2025 as a senior relationship manager. With almost 20 years of experience in various positions in private banking and client advisory, mainly at Credit Suisse, he has very broad financial expertise. 

Joshua Braun will also join the team in St. Gallen on 1 February 2025 as a relationship manager. He previously worked for more than 10 years in client advisory at VZ Vermögenszentrum in St. Gallen, where he was most recently a senior private client consultant specialising in investments, mortgages, pension and succession planning.

On 1 November 2024, Thierry Dobler took up the position of relationship manager in St. Gallen. He has more than ten years of experience in the financial industry and was a senior financial advisor at Raiffeisenbank Frauenfeld from 2015 to 2024. 

Elia Schärer has already started as a relationship manager in St. Gallen, taking up the position in August 2024. He has been with Julius Baer for more than five years. After joining the bank as a business and financial analyst, he spent the last three years working as a sales coach in client advisory. 

Patrick Prinz, head of the Swiss market at Julius Baer, said: “I am delighted to welcome our new colleagues to Julius Baer in St. Gallen. They all have proven experience, in-depth financial expertise and are familiar with the needs of our clients. I am convinced that with these new additions, we will be able to further strengthen our presence in St. Gallen and Eastern Switzerland and provide our clients with tailored support in achieving their financial goals.”