SWITZERLAND – Switzerland-based alternative investment firm, LGT Capital partners has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Maximilian Brönner and Tycho Sneyers to its executive board.

Brönner has been made a partner in the firm and joined from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was corporate finance manager, mainly responsible for private equity transactions.

Sneyers, already vice president in the firm, will head the business development team. Before joining LGT Capital Partners, he has worked at Aldgate Capital, Goldman Sachs and Andersen Consulting.

Elsewhere, LGT Capital Partners has appointed three new vice presidents. Wolfgang Müller, who works in the private equity investment team, Viktor Ula in the hedge fund investment team and Giacomo Biondi Morra in the business development team.