Thomas Frutiger has been a member of the Investment Committee since 2006.
He is a delegate member of the Administrative Board of the Frutiger Group, where he is in charge of total solutions and real estate development. In addition, Thomas Frutiger is a founder member of the professional surveyors association RICS Switzerland, and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK (FRICS). He is also Vice President of Entwicklung Schweiz (Association of General Entrepreneurs).
Thomas Frutiger studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (lic. oec. HSG) and completed a part-time course in Real Estate Economics at the European Business School (ebs) in Munich.
Adrian Wipf was appointed to the Foundation Board in 2013. Until June 2023 he held the position of Head of Asset Management at the BVK pension fund of the Canton of Zurich, where he was in charge of capital investments. Today, he is responsible for a number of areas, among them Process Engineering.
Adrian Wipf previously worked in senior posts for various Swiss financial institutions, including the Ecofin Group, Swisscanto Asset Management AG, and Julius Bär Investment Funds Services AG.
In addition to holding a degree in business economics from Switzerland‘s University of Commerce and Technology, Adrian Wipf is qualified as a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).
Since 2004, Andreas Markwalder has been President of the Board of Trustees and a Member of the Investment Committee.
Since 2014, he has also been the Director responsible for operational management at GastroSocial. Before that, and since 2000, he served as Head of Asset Management and CIO at the GastroSocial pension fund, where he was responsible for assets under management of CHF 5 billion and the Real Estate / Mortgage business. He is also President of the FIDIP Real Estate Investment Foundation and Vice President of the Board of IST Investment Foundation for Pension Funds. He is also active as an Executive Member of a real estate company and member of the Executive Board and the Management of IGAKIS Syndicate for Compensation Funds‐Information Systems. Previously, he was self-employed as an IT and business consultant in the pension fund sector.
Andreas Mark Walder gained a degree in economics at the University of Zurich (lic.oec. Publ.) where he specialised in business information systems.
