Martin Freiermuth

Martin Freiermuth is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of EFG International and EFG Bank and a member of the respective Executive Committees, effective as of 17 August 2020. In this role as COO and reporting directly to CEO Giorgio Pradelli, Martin Freiermuth oversees the entire Operations and IT functions and is responsible for further improving EFG’s operational efficiency as well as driving the bank’s digitalisation efforts.

Prior to joining EFG, Martin Freiermuth was with Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, where he worked since 2014, first as Group Head Products & Solutions and since October 2018 as Group Head Products & Markets and member of the Executive Committee. He also served as member of the Boards of Directors for IWI – International Wealth Insurer – in Luxembourg between 2015 and 2016 and for the Luxemburg Stock Exchange between 2019 and 2020. Before this, Martin Freiermuth worked at Bank Vontobel AG in Zurich for more than ten years from 2002 to 2013. He joined Vontobel as Head Credit & Counterparty Risk and later became a member of the Executive Committee Private Banking, first as Head Private Banking Services and later Head PB Wealth Management Services.

Martin Freiermuth holds a PhD in economics from the University of St. Gallen as well as a European Master Diploma of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).