Primary Job Title Board Member Primary Organization 
SIX Swiss Exchange
Location Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Andreas Planta has been a member of the Board of
Directors since 2006. He qualifies as an independent Non-Executive
Director. He serves as Chairman of the Risk Committee. He is a
member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the
Governance, Nomination and Corporate Responsibilities
Committee.
Planta is chairman of the Schweizerische
NationalVersicherungs-Gesellschaft
AG and a board member of Helvetia
Holding AG, both in Switzerland. He also is a board member of
various Swiss subsidiaries of foreign companies and other nonlisted
Swiss companies. Additionally, he is chairman of the
regulatory board of the SIX Swiss Exchange AG, and former
chairman of the Geneva Association of Business Law.
Andreas von Planta holds lic. iur. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Basel, Switzerland, and an LL.M. from Columbia
University School of Law in the United States. He passed his bar
examinations in Basel in 1982. Since 1983 he has lived in Geneva
and worked for the law firm Lenz & Staehelin, where he became a
partner in 1988. His areas of specialization include corporate law,
corporate governance, corporate finance, company reorganizations,
and mergers and acquisitions.
