André Helfenstein is Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIX since 1 January 2026. He has many years of national and international management experience in finance and banking.
André has served on the SIX Board of Directors since 2020 and currently holds further Board positions at AMAG Leasing AG, Cham, the Gaydoul Group, Zurich and the HSG Alumni Seniors Club, Zurich. He previously served as a Board Member at Baloise Holding (now Helvetia Baloise Group).
Since 2007, André Helfenstein has held various management positions in different banking businesses including private banking, corporate banking and institutional banking. As former CEO of Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. he was responsible for the bank’s business in the Swiss region from 2020-2024. Before joining Credit Suisse, he spent eleven years with The Boston Consulting Group, most recently as Partner and Managing Director.
André holds a master’s degree in business administration from University of St. Gallen and a certificate in psychology and sociology from Université de la Sorbonne.
The world Christoph Heusgen has spent his career navigating, from the UN Security Council to the chair of the Munich Security Conference, no longer runs on the old rules. Systemic competition has replaced consensus, “force vs. law” has replaced “West vs. East,” and Europe is being forced to ask what it can no longer outsource, including its own financial infrastructure. That question lands squarely on André Helfenstein’s desk. As Chairman of SIX, he runs critical infrastructure that must stay unshakeably stable as it transforms. In this fireside chat, André and Christoph will explore where geopolitics and market infrastructure actually meet: What a fracturing world order means for the rails our money runs on, and what it takes to lead through change without losing what makes an institution trusted.
