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A graduate of the HEC Lausanne, with an MBA in international banking and finance, Nicolas Walther began his career in Switzerland at Credit Suisse, analysing and servicing French and Belgian multinationals.

He was subsequently in charge of various missions within the investment banking subsidiary Credit Suisse First Boston, in London, before joining the Paribas group in 1987. Various challenges within its capital market activities were entrusted to him: syndication, distribution of fixed income, structured and alternative products. In 1996, he took on the commercial responsibility of Lombard Odier's financial intermediaries in Switzerland and French speaking Europe. From 2000, he created and managed the Lombard Odier Gestion subsidiary in Paris.

Nicolas Walther co-founded Auris Gestion in 2004, he is in charge of general management as well as development, particularly internationally.

Philippe Currat has nearly 40 years of banking experience. With the benefit of the Bar certificate of the Bar of Fribourg (Switzerland), Philippe Currat worked at UBS and at Hentsch & Cie, private bankers in Geneva, before occupying for 5 years the position of deputy head of the Legal department of the Secretariat of the Federal Banking Commission (currently FINMA). Philippe Currat then joined the General Management of Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild, Geneva, as General Secretary, a position he held for 26 years until his retirement in 2013. Within this bank, he was responsible for the legal, tax, compliance, human resources and communication departments. He also chaired the “Family Office” and “Wealth Planning” subsidiaries and acted as Compliance Officer for the Edmond de Rothschild Group.

For several years Philippe Currat also devoted himself to teaching and served as an expert for the federal exams for the Federal Diploma in Banking. In 2014, he also created AVCO Conseil, a consulting company designed to pass on his experience to financial and banking establishments.

Eric Hess obtained a law degree from the University of Geneva in 1986 and was admitted to the bar in 1988. He worked for a local bank for 7 years as a lawyer, head of the Legal, Compliance and Central File Department. He was also a member of the bank's Anti-Money Laundering Committee. Mr. Hess is an independent lawyer at Saint-Léger Avocats, where he is a partner and co-founder. Mr. Hess specializes in economic criminal law and international mutual legal assistance, as well as banking law and compliance management. Since 2011, he has also been a deputy judge at the Criminal Court. He has overseen the legal, compliance and AML aspects of Bastions Partners Office SA since its creation in 2013 and is a member of the Board of Directors of Bastions since June 2017. Mr. Hess continues his role at Auris Wealth Management SA.

Frédéric Binder is a lawyer and independent board member.

Holder of a law degree from the University of Geneva, a lawyer patent and a Masters in European law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he began his banking career in 1994 at Lombard Odier, in the legal team, then was successively responsible for the Gibraltar and Montreal subsidiaries of the bank.

Back in Geneva in 2005, he was responsible for the UK market Private Clients, then Co-COO of private banking in Switzerland.

In 2016 he joined the management of Banque Landolt in Lausanne as General Counsel.

In 2019 he returned to the Geneva Bar and joined the Bonnant & Associés law firm as a counsel.

Cristofer Gelli graduated in Economics from HEC in Lausanne in 1980 and joined Banque Scandinave en Suisse in Geneva that same year, before co-founding Gadd Wealth Management in 1989.

In 2002, Cristofer Gelli launched Argos Investment Fund then Argos Investment Managers in 2005, a company which took the name of QUAERO CAPITAL in 2015.

Cristofer Gelli was its chairman from 2005 to 2021. He is chairman and CEO of the Geneva wealth management company Gadd Wealth Management SA.

Cristofer Gelli is or has been a member of several boards of directors, including the Swiss Association of Independent Financial Advisors (S.A.I.F.A.), the collective pension fund COPRE and several other financial services companies and investment funds.

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Marc de Saint Denis began his career in telecommunications in the United States, before settling in Switzerland where he took on the responsibilities of market risk management and industrial credit restructuring within the Paribas group. He subsequently focused on the management of a small bank dedicated to private clients. In 1995, he took over the general management of the French subsidiary of Caixa Geral de Depositos, in Paris, wich he successfully brought back to profitability and growth.

Co-founder of Auris Gestion Privée in 2004, he is chairman of Auris Gestion Management Board.

After obtaining a law degree from the University of Geneva and banking training at Credit Suisse, François Tobler devoted the first part of his career to public affairs as political secretary and chief of staff to a minister of the State of Geneva. 
He then continued his career with a return in 1986 to banking, more precisely to the Compagnie de Banque et d'Investissements, CBI, which later became Union Bancaire Privée, UBP, working as General Secretary, before joining Banque Heritage in 2002, of which he was a member of the General Management. 

He has extensive experience in private banking and finance. 

Prior to joining the Board of Directors of Auris Wealth Management SA, François Tobler was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bastions Partners Office SA since the inception of the company in 2013.