@page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in }p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }The former deputy CEO of Safra Sarasin is returning to the limelight. The independent asset management firm 1875 Finance, with offices in Geneva and Zurich, is adding to its board of directors, with the arrival of Eric Sarasin. The firm says that his arrival brings added growth outlooks for the wealth management and multi-family office professions. He will be responsible for assisting the growth of the Zurich office, largely due to his network and knowledge of the Swiss market, a statement says.Sarasin, 60, began his banking career in 1982 at Pictet & Cie in Geneva, after earning Swiss, and then American degrees in Business Management & Administration, followed by a diploma from the Swiss Finance Institute. He then spent four years in the United States at Senior Vice President of Citibank NA in New York. His return to Switzerland came in 1988, with a banking position at Sarasin in Basel, where he was first responsible for brokerage, for sale of Swiss stocks in the USA and Japan, and marketing development for institutional clients in Europe.Over the years, he then served in several key positions at the same bank, and became a partner in 1994. He was appointed as head of the institutional department for high net worth private clients at the bank at the same time that he became chairman of the board at the geneva affiliate of Sarasin & Partners, London, and in 2000, he became had of the international private banking division of the Sarasin group, and then head of the private banking department in Geneva, Lugano, Basel and Zurich.In 2004, Sarasin was appointed as CEO of the private and institutional division, and then as head of private banking in 2009, and lastly as deputy CEO of Safra Sarasin Ltd in 2013. Since 2016-2017, Sarasin has been a member of the board of directors at Multi-Family Office ATAG (Basel/Zurich) and Rheinfinanz AG (Basel).
