Along with Thiam, CS head of commission Adam Gishen must also go
Adam Gishen, CS's head of marketing, communications, and investor relations, is also leaving the major bank. He was one of outgoing CEO Tidjane Thiam's closest advisors.
The departure of Gishen, who joined Credit Suisse in the fall of 2015 at almost the same time as Thiam, was attributed to the Tages-Anzeiger became public on Tuesday. The newspaper refers to "CS sources". The head of marketing and communications is said to have been part of a "gang of four" within the bank, together with Thiam, ex-COO Olivier Bouée and ex-human resources chief Peter Goerke.
At CS, Gishen was responsible for marketing and branding as well as internal communications, in addition to communications and cultivating relationships with major shareholders. He is said to have been one of the few to have had a direct line to CEO Thiam.
According to Tages-Anzeiger Gishen's leadership as communications chief was "highly controversial. In practice, only he - based in London - is said to have had the relevant information at his disposal, while the other members of the communications department usually did not know much more than the journalists to whom they were supposed to provide information.
