Zurich, Switzerland
I am Of Counsel to the Swiss law firm Binder Attorneys-at-Law (https://www.binderlegal.ch/en/our-team/bruno-heynen/) and have my my own corporate governance consultancy (https://www.heynen-governanceconsulting.ch/). I am Partner Legal at Ganda Business Solutions Ltd, Basel. I am member of the Advisory Board of the Corporate Governance Competence Centre of the University of St. Gallen. Until end of 2025 I was Co-Director of the European Corporate Governance Council at the Conference Board. Bevor that I was a member and former Co-Chairman of the Corporate Governance Council for many years. I also was a member of the International Corporate Governance Network and a member of the OECD BIAC Corporate Governance Committee. Until February 2018, I was Senior Advisor Corporate Governance to the Board of Novartis and Secretary to the Executive Committee of Novartis. My prior roles at Novartis included being Secretary to the Board of Novartis and Head Corporate Law & Governance of Novartis. I joined Novartis in 2004 from DHL, where I was General Counsel DHL Air & Ocean. Before the merger of DHL and Danzas I was the General Counsel of Danzas, being responsible for legal services, compliance and risk management. Previous to DHL/Danzas, I spent four years as Corporate Legal Counsel at Roche Holding in Basel, where I advised on corporate law and finance, mergers and acquisitions transactions and international commercial contracts. Prior to Roche, I spent three years with the Swiss law firm Froriep Renggli, providing counsel on a wide range of corporate and international trade law, working from the Zürich and London office. I started my career working as in-house counsel, first in the banking and then in auditing industry. I hold a degree in law (lic. iur HSG) from the University of St. Gallen and I am a Swiss attorney-at-law and a notary. I also hold a Master degree (LL.M.) in International Business Law from London School of Economics, London.
Ganda Business Solutions is a Professional Service Provider covering all General Administration (G&A) tasks. In our focus are entrepreneurial, innovation driven growth companies in need of part or the entire spectrum of G&A services supporting their core business.