Profile Martin Brander
Banking from Scratch - Transformer - Unusual Banker Certified Project Director IPMA Level A®
- Business economist with lateral thinking skills: analyse complex challenges from the ground up, develop solutions and successfully implement them
- Business Economist HWV with successful completion of the Swiss Finance Institute, Certified Project Director IPMA Level A®, Postgraduate Studies Environmental Management and TQM Expert, EFQM- and ESPRIX-Assessor
- Over 30 years of experience in financial industry
- Lecturer at FH St. Gallen
- Corporate developer, CEO at www.qualiatwork.ch
- Broad and successful experience in leadership and responsibility of local and international change management programs, co-operations, organisational development, corporate integration/merger, sourcing (incl. SLA management), project portfolio management, service management, implementation of leadership cockpit, sustainability, CSR, procurement
- Team player, good communicator at all hierarchical levels and with all stakeholders
Personality traits
- balanced
- engaged
- analytically
- strategic thinking and operational realisation
- entrepreneurial and pragmatic
- goal-oriented and independent
- innovative and willing to act

Extract from Reference Letter:
We have come to know Martin Brander as an absolutely reliable and versatile (external) employee who took responsibility in many situations, looked at the situations with the employees and searched for solutions. Martin's inestimable value lies in his ability to tackle and solve difficult situations, regardless of whether they are of a technical, personnel, organisational or cultural nature, and to transfer them into permanent responsibility. His work is characterised by creativity, leadership, professional knowledge and skills and above all by his ability to motivate employees to meet the faced challenges with the appropriate tools.
Dr. Simon Kauth
Chief Product Officer