Graubünden Cantonal Bank: Heinz Huber becomes new president

Change in management –

Raiffeisen Switzerland boss Heinz Huber becomes GKB president

The Graubünden government has elected Huber as president. He will take office on July 1, 2025 and succeeds Peter A. Fanconi.

Published today at 8:00 a.m

Heinz Huber is taking his hat off as head of Raiffeisen Switzerland after six years.

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Raiffeisen Switzerland boss Heinz Huber is retiring at the turn of the year. This means that Switzerland’s second largest banking group after UBS is looking for a new CEO.

After almost six years, Huber will step down from his role as CEO on December 31, 2024, Raiffeisen Switzerland announced on Wednesday. As of July 2025, he wants to move to the strategic management level and become President of the Graubündner Kantonalbank (GKB).

On January 1, 2025, Christian Poerschke, Head of the Finance and Services Department and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at Raiffeisen Switzerland, will take over on an interim basis. The board of directors initiated the succession process.

Expansion of the business

“Heinz Huber took over as CEO of Raiffeisen Switzerland at a very demanding time and has always successfully managed the company carefully and with a steady hand,” said Chairman of the Board of Directors Thomas Müller in the statement. The entire supervisory board thanked him “for his great commitment”.

Huber has been head of Raiffeisen Switzerland since January 7, 2019. During this time, he played a key role in shaping the further development of the banking group, it said. Over the past six years, Raiffeisen has expanded all business areas.

This means that last year’s income reached CHF 4.1 billion (+15%). Raiffeisen Switzerland increased profits by 17.7% to 1.39 billion. The cooperative banking group with almost 220 Raiffeisen banks employs over 11,000 people.

Fanconi successor

The Graubündner Kantonalbank (GKB) announced at the end of July that bank president Peter Fanconi would resign early at the PS meeting in 2025. He was originally re-elected for a third term from 2022 to the end of March 2026.

Fanconi was most recently associated with the controversial lending by the Graubündner Kantonalbank to the collapsed Austrian real estate group Signa from investor René Benko under pressure. However, the test report commissioned in this regard exonerated the president.

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