Christopher Koch


“It’s all about trust and control – whom do I trust, and how do I maintain control.”

Christopher Koch is a seasoned strategist and conceptualizer in the infrastructure and banking industries. With a master’s degree in finance, he started his career in consulting, advising on and implementing compliance solutions for financial companies, focusing on anti-money laundering. Changing industries, he joined a major Swiss utilities company in corporate development, later on heading the strategy team. After a brief further consulting period, he returned again to banking and was in charge of conceptualizing improvements in payments services at SIX Banking Services. Currently, he is leading the multi-party SSFN project (“Secure Swiss Finance Network”), with the aim of establishing a completely new, secure and resilient communication network based on the SCION technology for the Swiss finance market.