Christian Meissner

Credit Suisse Group AG hired Christian Meissner as co-head of international wealth-management investment banking advisory & vice chairman of investment banking October 2020 to head a new unit connecting its wealthiest clients with its investment bank.

Mr. Meissner was previously head of corporate and investment banking at Bank of America until 2018, helping reshape the unit after its financial-crisis merger with Merrill Lynch & Co. In the role, he oversaw an effort to pare the corporate and investment bank's customer roster and focus on fewer, more lucrative, clients.

Before he joined Bank of America in 2010, Austrian-born Mr. Meissner worked for years as an investment banker in Europe at Goldman Sachs and at Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Meissner reports to Philipp Wehle, head of international wealth management, and to Brian Chin, head of Credit Suisse's investment bank.