After more than three decades with the bank, the Chief Communications Officer of the Julius Baer group is set to retire at the end of June 2017. 

Jan A. Bielinski, Chief Communications Officer, will retire from the Executive Board of Julius Baer Group at the end of June 2017 on grounds of age after more than 30 years with Julius Baer, the bank said today as it released it full year 2016 results.

Bielinski will be succeeded as Chief Communications Officer by Larissa Alghisi Rubner on 1 July 2017, when she will join the Executive Board of the Group.

Alghisi Rubner joins from the Zurich-based asset management Group GAM Holding AG, where she was Group Head of Communications from 2010 to 2016 and a member of the Group Management Board from mid-2015.

Prior to joining GAM she had worked for UBS for 11 years in various senior positions in corporate and financial communications, she is a Swiss and Italian citizen.

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«Over the past decades, Jan Bielinski has contributed tremendously to the success of our Group. I would like to thank him for his relentless efforts to foster Julius Baer’s strong standing in the market. At the same time, I am pleased to welcome Larissa Alghisi Rubner, a seasoned communications professional, as our new Chief Communications Officer. I wish her a lot of success in her new function,» said Boris F.J. Collardi, (pictured) Chief Executive Officer of the Julius Baer Group.