Globally recognized M&A strategy, merger management, and carve-out expert who helps companies achieve more impactful deal outcomes.

Anna leads the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice for Switzerland and coleads M&A strategy and portfolio for the Life Sciences Practice around the world. She is a globally recognized merger management and carve-out advisor specializing in advising boards and management teams in designing, planning, and executing complex, cross-border integrations, separations, and alliances. She also helps her clients develop M&A blueprint and build M&A capabilities.

Anna has close to twenty years of M&A experience, advising clients in buying and selling across the entire M&A value chain. She has supported more than 110 M&A deals, ranging from $200 million to $50 billion. While her industry focus is on life sciences, she has worked across multiple industries, ranging from consumer and industrials to technology.

Anna also has extensive consulting, corporate, and private-equity experience. She regularly lectures on M&A topics at business schools across Europe and has authored numerous studies.

In addition to her work with M&A, she is also passionate about diversity and has served in multiple roles and boards to further diversity and inclusion.

Anna has previously held various executive management roles including being the Chief People Officer for Deloitte in Switzerland. 

EXPERTISE

M&A, Life Sciences, Private Equity & Principal Investors, Strategy & Corporate Finance, Carve-outs, Merger Management

PAST EXPERIENCE

Deloitte – Partner, Managing partner, Director

Gyrus Capital – Operating-advisory partner

Advance – Vice president of the board

EDUCATION

University of Gothenburg – MS and BA, Business Administration and Economics

Erika is a Leader for McKinsey’s Digital and Analytics in R&D service line, focusing on various topics in biopharma, diagnostics, and personalized healthcare, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-based use case strategy and implementation, broader business strategy, R&D, and commercialization.

Prior to McKinsey, Erika completed a PhD in Chemistry at Stanford University, and co-founded an oncology company.

Nicole became CEO Communication Services at Post CH Ltd in January 2021. Prior to this, she was CEO of Adecco Group Switzerland and was additionally zone responsible for Adecco Austria, Luxemburg and Belgium.

Before that, Nicole was CFO of Pontoon Solutions, an Adecco Group company, and Head of M&A for the Adecco Group from 2010-2015. In her roles as CFO and CEO, she had profit and loss responsibility for large entities and responsibility for over 1000 employees, led successful transformations and networked in the Swiss business community.

Between 2008 and 2010, she was Managing Director of Adecco Germany Holding. From 2005-2008 Nicole was Head of Investor Relations and Special Projects at the Adecco Group. Her responsibilities included all communications with the financial market and she managed numerous other projects and was responsible for international sales controlling. Between 1998 and 2005, she held various positions and lead teams in equity research departments of investments banks.

Nicole holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Zurich and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Besides her native German, Nicole Burth speaks English, French and Italian. She lives in the canton of Zurich, is married and has two children.

Patricia Widmer studied business administration at the University of Zurich with an emphasis on banking and finance and worked for several years in private banking for a large Swiss bank.

During her subsequent time abroad in the US and Germany, she held leadership positions with several charity organizations.

Patricia has been with the University of St. Gallen since 2014, where she established the English-speaking certificate programme “Women Back to Business” (WBB) as well as the “Women’s Leadership Programme” and is now Programme Director for various Diversity and Management Programmes as well as Vice-Director and member of the senior management team at the Executive School.

Furthermore, she facilitates and moderates workshops as well as presentations about Inclusive Leadership, Diversity and New Work. She wrote her dissertation about “Gender Disparity on Top of Companies”. In addition, she holds several non-executive positions and is founder and managing partner of Aalto AG – fostering organizational and professional happiness.

Christoph Haldi has been Chief People Officer of the Ringier AG since August 2022. The qualified teacher, Christoph Haldi has a Master’s from the University of Berne and a Master of Advanced Studies in General Management. Christoph has held a number of management positions at Ringier AG since joining in 2013. From January 2017 to July 2022, as Head Business Services, he was responsible for setting up a Shared Service Center of Ringier AG in Switzerland, which provides services for various subsidiaries of Ringier AG.

Before joining Ringier, Christoph held a management role at Swiss Federal Railways and previously worked in various senior management consulting positions. He started his career as a controller at ABB.

Prof. Dr. oec. Michèle F. Sutter-Rüdisser is Director of the Institute of Public Finance, Fiscal Law and Law & Economics (IFF-HSG) as well as Adjunct Professor of ‘Organizational Control and Governance’ at the University of St. Gallen. She is also long-term Visiting Guest Professor for ‘Governance for Banking and Insurance’ at the School of Management at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan. Moreover, she serves as an independent board member at Erste Group Bank AG (Vienna), Helsana AG (Dübendorf, Zürich) and Graubündner Kantonalbank (Chur).

Before, she was a Visiting Professor at WU Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Accounting and Control at the University of Zürich and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Business Strategy and Policy at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, P.R. China. She has work experience in the fields of assurance and advisory business services with Ernst & Young Ltd., in banking and finance as well as in the hotel industry.

She holds a Ph.D. in Management, summa cum laude, and a M.A. in Risk Management and Financial Services from the University of St. Gallen. Her major research interests are in the area of Corporate Governance, Board Governance, and Organizational Control.

Prof. Sutter-Rüdisser speaks German, English, French, and Italian fluently and has basic knowledge in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

She is married and mother of two children.