Giulia Fitzpatrick is stepping down from the PostFinance Ltd Board of Directors with immediate effect for personal reasons. “I’d like to thank my colleagues for their years of cooperation in the Board of Directors”, says Giulia Fitzpatrick, and adds: “I can look back on an exciting and rewarding time with PostFinance, during which I was able to help the bank develop and achieve new successes.” Giulia Fitzpatrick joined the PostFinance Board of Directors on 1 November 2018 and chaired the Board of Directors’ IT & Digitization Committee.

Chairman of the Board of Directors Marcel Bührer thanks Giulia Fitzpatrick for her long-standing commitment to PostFinance: “During her time on the Board of Directors, Giulia has made a particularly valuable contribution with her financial expertise. As Chair of the Board of Directors’ IT & Digitization Committee, Giulia has had a significant impact on the development of our IT and the associated digitization of PostFinance. She has always stood up for and upheld the values of PostFinance, for which we are very grateful.” Giulia Fitzpatrick is one of the four members mandated by Swiss Post on the seven-member PostFinance Board of Directors. Swiss Post and PostFinance are working to ensure a replacement is appointed quickly.

Many years of experience in the financial sector

Giulia Fitzpatrick (born 1959) has spent most of her career working in the financial sector. Her first professional experience was at the commercial bank Bankers Trust, where her role involved cash management, strategy and products. She then spent several years working for National Securities Clearing Corporation and Instinet, where she was responsible for risk management, before moving to Merrill Lynch to head up IT projects for securities services. She also worked for seven years at UBS, where her role included managing regulatory IT requirements.