Foundation board

Yves Burrus

Chair
Yves Burrus graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and from INSEAD in Fontainebleau. His career started as a financial analyst, whence he moved on to direct the Paris office of an American investment bank. In 1971, he founded a Swiss private bank, Banque Ormond, Burrus & Cie SA, and became its director. In 1998, he took over the chair of Marcuard Cook & Cie SA, a Swiss private bank, which was sold in 2001 to Anglo Irish Bank. Yves Burrus is currently Vice-President of the Board of Hyposwiss Private Bank Genève SA as well as of several other companies. For several years he has work principally in support of humanitarian and charitable organisations in Switzerland and abroad. As President of Antenna Technologies Foundation, he focuses in particular on microcredit activities in India.

Diane Labruyère-Cuilleret

Member
Diane Labruyère-Cuilleret, a French national, is married, with three children. A graduate of HEC Paris, she next obtained an MBA from UC Berkeley and from the Getulio Vargas foundation in Sao Paulo. It in the Agence Française de Développement that she embarked on her career, as manager of agro-industrial projects in Portuguese-speaking Africa. From there, she moved to Carrefour to become Director of Purchasing and Products Marketing. In 2002, she co-founded the l’Institut Robin des Bois (Robin Hood Institute) in Geneva. This private foundation finances some 20 projects a year, primarily in Africa, in the fields of health, education and microfinance. In 2007, she took her place in the family business where she works on growing its food distribution activities, extending a tradition already four generations old.

Marc Odendall

Secretary
Marc Odendall holds dual French and German nationality, is married and father of four children.
With degrees from the Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris, from ESSEC and in Law (Paris), he launched his career in Germany as an assistant to Albrecht Matuschka. He went on to work at JPMorgan Paris until 1989. In 1990, he was a founder member of Crédit Suisse First Boston in Paris. His next posts were as Director-General of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets France, followed by that of Managing Director of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in Paris. From 1997 on, he headed the Technology Group, Europe, firstly with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, and later with Crédit Suisse First Boston in London. He left banking in 2001 to devote himself to philanthropy. As of 2011, he is board member in a number of foundations, calling himself a “venture philanthropist”.

Claude Regamey

Member

Peter Stocker

Treasurer
Before moving to Marcuard Family Office as Head of Tax, Legal and Compliance, from 2000 to 2002 Peter Stocker was a Member of the Executive Committee at Bank Vontobel (Liechtenstein) in Vaduz. From 1993 to 2000, he headed the Financial Planning department at Bank Vontobel in Zurich, initially as Vice President, and from 1998 as First Vice President.
He was responsible for providing comprehensive financial planning for the bank’s private clients, an area covering taxes, inheritance and matrimonial law, and insurance and pen-sions, in addition to investment. From 1995 until leaving the Vontobel Group, he was a member of the Swiss Bankers Association’s tax commission. He is a member of the Swiss branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). In 1999, Peter Stocker gained his Certified Financial Planner (CFP) diploma, as well as completing the INSEAD Interna-tional Executive Programme (IEP) in Fontainebleau and Singapore.
From 1989 to 1993, Peter Stocker worked in Zurich as a tax and legal consultant for Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft and Deloitte & Touche AG. Between 1989 and 1992, he completed a dissertation on tax law at the University of Basel, where he had completed his first degree in law between 1984 and 1989. Peter Stocker speaks fluent German, English, French, and Italian.