Meet the members of our team and Foundation Board, whose diverse expertise directly supports our activities.
Born in Lausanne, Jasmine Audemars is the great-granddaughter of Jules Louis Audemars, co-founder of Audemars Piguet. With a degree in economics and economic history, she began her career as a journalist, rising to become Editor-in-Chief of Le Journal de Genève, which would subsequently become Le Temps. Jasmine chaired the Audemars Piguet Board of Directors for 30 years, taking over from her father, Jacques Louis Audemars. Since 2022, she has been focusing all her energy on philanthropy, particularly in her role as Chair of the Audemars Piguet Foundations.
Lynda Mansson worked for WWF International for over 10 years, before being appointed Director of the MAVA Foundation, which granted over a billion Swiss francs in donations under her management. Lynda Mansson is a certified and accredited leadership coach. In 2020, she founded LeaderLy, the company she runs today. She is also a member of several Foundation Boards and an advisory expert for the Cartier for Nature fund and the Sky Blue Leadership programme.
Nicolas Burgener is a lawyer and certified tax expert. He began his career at Audemars Piguet in Switzerland in 2006, before joining the Group’s North American subsidiary. In 2010, he was appointed Group Chief Legal Officer and Secretary to the Board of Directors of Audemars Piguet Holding SA, before being promoted in 2023 to the post of Secretary General Board Affairs & Chief Governance Officer, a role he continues to fulfil today. In parallel, Nicolas also sits on several Foundation Boards and Boards of Directors.
With a PhD in law, Anne Héritier Lachat began her career as a jurist at the Centre Social Protestant before becoming a lawyer. She then served as a deputy judge at the Geneva Court of Justice and as a legal adviser to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – now the Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) – before serving as a member and Vice-Chair. Anne Héritier Lachat was also appointed a judge at the Court of First Instance and was a member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC). She also sat on the Board of Directors at FINMA, before becoming its first female Chair in 2011. In 2018, Anne became the first female Chair of Geneva Hospice Général’s Board of Directors. She continues to fulfil this role today, while also sitting on the Board of the Assura Foundation.
Hans Isler has a master’s degree in economics and is a Swiss certified public accountant. He began his career as a Delegate to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), before becoming an auditor at Arthur Andersen, where he was later promoted to partner and member of the Board of Directors. From 2002 to 2011, Hans Isler was a partner and member of the Board of Directors of Ernst & Young Switzerland, before going on to work as a deputy magistrate at the Geneva Court of Auditors. Since 2012, Hans has sat on the Boards of various banks and financial companies. He is also a member of Geneva Call’s Board of Trustees and of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Finance Commission.