Members of the Board of Trustees

Christina Rancic

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation
Representative of the affiliated companies

President of Copré since 2007, Christina Rancic has been associated with the Foundation since the 1980s, firstly through her administrative activities and then with some responsible functions at general management level with H&M Hennes & Mauritz SA. In connection with these activities she had notably been responsible for human resources, and then in charge of accountancy and as delegate for Copré at the Annual General Meeting. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation since 2003.

Christina Rancic is a licentiate in the Industrial and Commercial Sciences, and financial management  (hons. finance), of Geneva University.

At the present moment, she is co-director of Ypsos Conseil en gestion and administrative director and member of the board of directors of Argos Investment Managers SA.

Christina Rancic was born in Sweden in 1958. She has lived in Geneva for 30 years, is married and mother of 4 children.

Robert Fiechter

Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation
Representative of the affiliated companies

Partner since 1986 in the Des Gouttes & Associés lawyers’ office, Robert Fiechter is also alternate judge in the Geneva Court of Justice as well as President of the OAR Poste Tribunal (since 2007) and  deputy secretary of the CDB surveillance committee (since 2008). He was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 1976. Robert Fiechter has a wide experience in international disputes and of counselling in commercial and bank litigation and international frauds. His principal areas of activity concern banking and stock market law, third party liability, contentious matters, economic penal law, company law and international trade. He joined the Copré Foundation Board of Trustees in 2005 and has held the Vice-Chairmanship since 2006..

Born in 1952, Robert Fiechter is married and father of  4 children. He lives in Geneva.

Jacques Grivel

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and Président of the Investment Committee
Representative of the affiliated companies

Jacques Grivel is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fundo SA, a company specialising in risk and asset management for institutional clients, and currently manages risk on behalf of pension funds for a total amount of CHF 85 thousand million. Previously, Jacques Grivel was President and CEO for theScreener.com SA company, a recognised specialist in financial analyses. He has also been active in Private Equity, directed several financial communication companies and founded the micro-finance Finethic fund.

Born in 1964, Jacques Grivel has the advantage of a Masters degree from the Lausanne federal polytechnic school and holds a federal specialist diploma in pension funds.

He is married and father of two children. He lives in Morges/VD.

Pierre Michel

Member of the Board of Trustees
Representative of the insured

Trained in the law, Pierre Michel has pursued a career in finance and banking for about 20 years, during which he has held high level executive positions in well-known institutions such as HSBC Private Bank, Dresdner Bank, Banque Populaire Suisse and UBS. During his time with the Banque Populaire Suisse, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Copré and then assumed the Chairmanship from 1996 to 2006. He was Managing Director of Copré from 1 January 2007 to 15 June 2010, and was also a member of the Investment Committee which he chaired from 2006 to 2009. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees without operational responsibility. In 2007, Pierre Michel started his own company and devotes himself mainly to two activities: pension fund business and asset management, especially of real estate.

Born in 1958, Pierre Michel is married and father of 4 children. He lives in Geneva.

Mario Izzo

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and of the Investment Committee
Representative of the insured

Mario Izzo has extensive experience in traditional private management, acquired mainly at Kessler Gestion SA in Geneva and during various professional residences in the USA. He also has solid knowledge of company management, especially in the fiduciary sectors, taxation, professional insurance, legal matters, accounting and human resources.
At the same time, Mario Izzo is responsible for courses at the Advanced School of Banking and Finance (ESNF) in Lausanne.

He speaks several languages. Born in 1970, Mario Izzo lives in Paudex/VD. He is married, and the father of a child.

Robin Gordon

Member of the Board of Trustees
Representative of the insured

Elected at the General Assembly of May 2011 in place of Michèle Perroud, Robin Gordon is the latest addition to Copré’s Board of Trustees. A graduate of the Lausanne Hotel School, he has benefited from a full and varied career, including managerial posts within the group Retraites Populaires, Mercuri Urval SA then Multi Personnel Service. Currently managing director and partner at Interiman Group SA, he is in charge of ‘tertiary’ activities in one of the sector’s leading companies in French-speaking Switzerland, operating 34 agencies and employing a staff of 120.

Born in 1965, Robin Gordon lives in Etoy. He is married and the father of two children.