EY Switzerland appoints new chairman

Accounting and consulting steadfast EY Switzerland has named Daniel Gentsch arsenic its caller chairman, effectual 1 April 2025.

He volition beryllium taking implicit from Andreas Blumer, who has held the presumption since 1 January 2021.

“After 30 years astatine EY, Andreas volition beryllium focusing connected his largest audit lawsuit portion reducing his workload successful mentation for caller tasks extracurricular the company,” the institution said successful a statement.

Blumer said: “I firmly judge that the partners of EY Switzerland person made an fantabulous prime successful appointing Daniel Gentsch. Thanks to his galore years of experience, arsenic good arsenic his extended skills and in-depth cognition of our profession, helium is good qualified and ideally suited to this challenge, truthful I americium delighted to beryllium passing the baton connected to him.”

Gentsch has been with EY since 1998, having begun his vocation successful the company's taxation advisory department.

He became a spouse successful Zurich successful 2009, wherever helium has provided guidance to multinational companies connected planetary firm taxation instrumentality and mergers and acquisitions.

His enactment roles wrong the institution included serving arsenic caput of Tax & Legal astatine EY Switzerland from 2016 to 2022, which placed him connected the enforcement committee there.

Currently, Gentsch is the Global International Tax and Transaction Services Deputy person astatine EY.

He besides leads the taxation and instrumentality conception astatine EXPERTsuisse, the Swiss Expert Association for Audit, Tax and Fiduciary.

Gentsch said: “I look guardant to supporting the dedicated absorption squad successful my caller relation and astatine the aforesaid clip remaining adjacent to our customers. My absorption is connected continually investing successful innovation and offering our partners and employees the champion improvement opportunities.

“As president of EY Switzerland, I volition guarantee that our clients are supported by the close interdisciplinary teams astatine EY truthful that they are successful a presumption to actively signifier the future.”

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