The Supervisory Board of LAIQON AG has appointed Mr. Axel Hörger to the Executive Board as Chief Strategy Officer (CSTRO) with effect from January 1, 2026. Since March 2025, the former CEO of UBS Deutschland AG has been serving as Senior Advisor to the Board. Mr. Hörger succeeds Stefan Mayerhofer, who will step down from his position as Chief Wealth Officer on December 31, 2025, as planned.

Mayerhofer will continue to serve selected clients as a senior advisor at BV Bayerische Vermögen GmbH and manage the Mayerhofer Strategie AMI fund. The newly formed Executive Board team, with Dipl.-Ing. Achim Plate as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Axel Hörger, is committed to close collaboration and shared responsibility in driving LAIQON AG?s GROWTH 28 strategy.

Mr. Plate as CEO of the LAIQON Group is still responsible for the Digital Wealth business segment as well as the areas of Finance, Legal, Compliance, People & Organization, Technology, and IR/PR. As CSTRO, Mr. Hörger will be responsible for the asset and wealth management business segments as well as group sales and sustainability. He has in-depth expertise in capital markets coupled with digital and quantitative understanding.

Special emphasis will be placed on strengthening collaboration with national and international partner networks in the area of sales. His parallel leadership role in the Swiss subsidiary of the LAIQON Group underscores the growing importance of the DACH region for the Group. Axel Hörger brings many years of leadership experience at international asset and wealth managers and can draw on a broad network in the industry.

Most recently, he was co-founder and chairman of AIB Acquisition Cooperation, a New York-based SPAC listed on Nasdaq. Previously, he was CEO of Petiole Asset Management AG (Switzerland), CEO of Lombard International Assurance in Europe, and from 2011 to 2015 CEO of UBS Deutschland AG and head of its Wealth Management. Before that, Mr. Hörger worked for 16 years at Goldman Sachs as Managing Director, most recently as Head of Institutional Sales for EMEA in Asset Management.

To this day, he is active in various advisory boards, including Siemens and Atlantik-Brücke e.V.