Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Alex W Widmer, age 52, chief executive officer at Bank Julius Baer, has died, the bank announced Friday morning. No details were provided except to say that he “died unexpectedly overnight Wednesday.” He is survived by three children.

Chairman Raymond Baer said of Widmer that he had “opened new dimensions in private banking” for the bank, and the obituary on the bank’s web site notes that “For colleagues and clients alike, as well as for the financial industry, Alex Widmer was the very epitome of a Swiss private banker.”

The bank will be headed by Hans de Gier, who was CEO of the Julius Baer Group until September 2008 when he became chairman of GAM.

Widmer, a graduate of St Gallen university in economics, worked for Credit-Suisse from 1986 to 2005, when he joined Bank Julius Baer. He had worked for Credit Suisse in Boston, Singapore and Japan as well as Switzerland.

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