Andy Waar new member of the Advisory Board of Wirz & Partners
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Swiss executive search company expands advisory board
Andy Waar, new member of the Advisory Board of Wirz & Partners
Wirz & Partners appoints Yapeal co-founder Andy Waar to the advisory board. One of the leading Swiss executive search companies is strengthening its expertise in the digital banking and fintech sector. Waar is regarded as an expert in neobanking, fintech and digital marketing and is also guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.
“With Andy Waar, we have been able to win a well-networked thought leader of the Swiss marketing, fintech and neo-banking scene,” says Erik Wirz, Managing Partner of Wirz & Partner. Andy Waar is an entrepreneur, musician, drummer and lawyer. As a Marketeer, he can look back on over 19 years of banking know-how. He is the founder of Fintechrockers and co-founder of YAPEAL, one of the future leading Swiss neo-bank solutions
Two years ago, he was selected as a digital rock star by the HWZ in the course “Digital Finance”.
Wirz & Partners serves two focus industries, technology / digitization and life sciences in recruiting executives and professionals. In the FSI industry (financial services industry sector), primarily; Banking and insurance companies as well as Swiss software companies and technology service providers.
“In recent years, we have observed that the successful market adaptation of fintech and digital banking requires primarily customer-oriented digital marketing,” explains Wirz. That changes the demands on executives. Topics such as digital branding, UX design and packaging are becoming increasingly important. Projects such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Portfolio Management, Bitcon, Business Intelligence in Trading, Digitalization, Back-to-Front Machine Learning, Payment, Payment Security, Blockchain as well as the complete digitization of the retail business must be manageable.
Transformation processes and mindset changes
Andy Waar is himself a defining figure in the transformation process in the local banking and insurance industry. He also knows the key players. As an advisor to Wirz & Partners, he wants to bring in both know-how and network. “At the management level, I’ve been observing a mindset change for a while,” says Waar. “Banking is being demystified.
The customers compare the net performance of the services and
Offers from the banks and financial service providers. »Banks would have to provide decisive added value with increasing pressure on margins in order to be able to accompany customers along the changing needs.
