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Roland Ledergerber has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2021 and Chairman since 2022. He joined St.Galler Kantonalbank in December 1998 as Head of Corporate Clients and was subsequently Head of Sales and Deputy Head of Division. In 2002, he became a member of the Management Board and Head of the Private and Commercial Clients Division. From 1 February 2008 until 30 April 2021, he was President of the Executive Board.  Before joining SGKB he worked for UBS AG in various positions in Switzerland and abroad in the following departments: Controlling, Corporate and Institutional Banking Europe as well as Commercial Clients Switzerland.

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Ivo Wechsler graduated as lic. oec. HSG from the University of St.Gallen in 1994. His professional career began in Corporate Finance at the major Swiss bank UBS. After holding various management positions in Controlling and Treasury, from 2008 to 2024 he worked for the listed international technology group HUBER+SUHNER, Herisau/Pfäffikon ZH - from 2010 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Group Executive Board. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Zehnder Group AG, Gränichen, and V-ZUG Holding AG.

After graduating from the School of Economics and Business Administration (HWV), Rolf Birrer joined PricewaterhouseCoopers AG (PwC) in 1991. As partner and lead auditor, since 2001 he was in charge for numerous listed and privately held financial intermediaries. From 2007 - 2017, he was also PwC's Head of Banking Audit for the Zurich/St.Gallen/Vaduz region. During his time at PwC, he was never involved, either directly or indirectly, in PwC's mandate with St.Galler Kantonalbank.

Andrea Cornelius has been a lecturer for Digital Technology, Entrepreneurship and Marketing Management at the Munich University of Applied Sciences since 2018. Before moving to teaching and research, she had been working for IBM in various management positions for 10 years. Prior to that, Andrea Cornelius worked for international companies such as Allianz, Computer Sciences Corporation CSC and T-Systems Enterprise Services. She completed her physics studies at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1987 and received her PhD in natural sciences from the University of Hamburg in 1991.

After the Master's degree. oec. HSG, University of St. Gallen in 1991 Claudia Gietz Viehweger worked at Zürcher Kantonalbank in various functions, including on mortgage financing and credit management and market research. From 1998 to 2019 she worked for Gietz AG in Gossau; from 2001 as a member of the Executive Board and Delegate of the Board of Directors.

Marc Mächler has been delegated by the Government Council of the Canton of St.Gallen accordance with article 5 of the Cantonal Bank Act. As Government Councillor, he represents the Canton of St.Gallen as the main shareholder in the board of directors of the St.Galler Kantonalbank.

Marc Mächler has been Government Councillor of the Canton of St.Gallen since 1 June 2016. Until 2020 he was Head of the Department of Construction. Since 1 June 2020 he has been Head of the Department of Finance.  Prior to his election to the Government Council, he held various management positions at UBS for around 20 years. From 2009 – 2016 he worked in the Wealth Management & Swiss Banks division of UBS AG in St.Gallen, first as Head of Institutional Clients Eastern Switzerland, later as Head of HNW Rayon St.Gallen. From 2003 – 2008 he worked as a political consultant in the Corporate Center of UBS AG in Zurich. After graduating as lic. oec. HSG in 1996, Marc Mächler worked for UBS Warburg and its predecessor company SBC Warburg Dillon Read in the Corporate Finance department in Zurich until 2002.

Since 2020, Daniel Ott has been leading the product management unit as a member of the senior management team of ti&m AG, Zurich. The company is active in Switzerland in developing digitalisation, security and innovation projects and products. Prior to that, he worked for the Swiss big banks Credit Suisse and UBS for around 27 years in various management positions in IT. He was CIO of UBS Switzerland and CIO for UBS Asset Management as well as CIO for the global private banking of Credit Suisse.

Stefan Scheiber has worked for the Bühler Group in Uzwil since 1986. In 2014, he became Division Head of the Food division and from 2016 to 2025 he was CEO. Since February 2026 he is chairman of the Board of Directors of Bühler Group.

Cornelia Stengel graduated as lic. iur. from the University of Zurich in 2004, where she also completed her doctorate in law in 2014. She has been working as a lawyer specialising in financial market and data protection law for the law firm Kellerhals Carrard in Zurich since 2013 and has been a partner since 2017 and member of the Management Board since 2023. She is also an honorary professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).