HSBC Private Bank Appoints LatAm, France Heads for Switzerland

Andrew Deane

31 January 2007

HSBC Private Bank in Switzerland has appointed Walter Kiceleff as Sector Head, Southern Cone. Mr Kiceleff will join in March from ABN Amro, and will report to Beatriz Sanchez, Business Area Head - The Americas. Mr Kiceleff was senior vice president, products and sales for Central Europe, Middle East and Latin America at ABN Amro and was a member of the executive committee running the bank in Switzerland. Mr Kiceleff has been at the Zurich operation of ABN Amro since 2001 when he was transferred from the Buenos Aires office in his native Argentina. HSBC has also appointed Norbert Guedj to head up the French desk. Mr Guedj, who started at HSBC on 17 January worked from 1987 to 2004 at Credit Suisse in Geneva, where he was head of the French offshore business.