Founder and Executive Chairman, stars Foundation, Weinfelden, Switzerland

• 2014 – present: Executive Chairman and Founder of the stars Foundation Board, Weinfelden, Switzerland
• 2008 – 2014: Chairman and Co-Founder of the stars Foundation Board, Weinfelden, Switzerland
• 1994 – 2016: Member of the Board of UBS Wolfsberg and Congress Hotel Seepark AG
• 1994 – 2014: CEO, UBS Wolfsberg. Emphasis on Business Development, i.e. initiating, supervising, and conducting UBS Briefings, UBS Health Forum, UBS Arts Forum, UBS Study Trips, UBS Think Tanks, Wolfsberg Podium (www.wolfsberg.com)
• 1981 – 1994: Various responsibilities for UBS Management and Executive Development, Member and Chairman of the Board of UBS Art Collection
• Concurrently: Member of the Board of various companies and foundations in Switzerland

Consul General, Consulate General of Switzerland, Guangzhou, China

Markus Thür was born 1966 in Scherzingen/Thurgau in the Eastern part of Switzerland. He joined the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs in 1992. He holds a Swiss Federal Diploma in Business Administration and a Diploma in International Relations FFHS. 

After his consular training in Berne/Switzerland and São Paulo/Brazil, he was subsequently transferred to the Swiss consular and diplomatic representations in Lyon/France, San José/Costa Rica, Houston/USA and Dakar/Senegal. From June 2011 to 2016 he was in charge of the section for the Citizen Services and Support for Representations at the Consular Directorate of the Foreign Ministry in Berne/Switzerland followed by the appointment as Consul General of Switzerland in Munich, Germany. From 2020 to 2024, he was appointed as Consul General of Switzerland in Cape Town/South Africa and in November 2024 Mr. Thür started his appointment as Consul General of Switzerland in Guangzhou. 

He is married to Juçara Thür-de Idaira Cavalcante Braga and is the father of two adult children. 

Art Collector, Business Leader, Former Swiss Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and Mongolia, Mauensee, Switzerland

Uli Sigg in his career traversed very diverse fields: from journalism to industry to diplomacy as Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia to venture capital investing and to art. He served on various boards of global companies.He currently is a member of the Advisory Board of China Development Bank and an active investor and board member in several tech ventures. Of his extensive interactions in more than forty years with  the PR China, two are of historic significance: to establish 1980 the first industrial joint venture between the PRC and the outside world which marks the beginning of the PRC‘s epochal globalization process; and to form the singular collection of Chinese contemporary art that can represent the story line from its beginnings in the 70ies to the present -  and then restituting 1500 works back to China, to the M+ Museum in Hongkong. He also established 1997 the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Chinese contemporary artists living in Greater China, now transformed into the SIGG PRIZE. He is a member of the M+ Museum Board, the International Council of New York Modern Art Museum MOMA, International Advisory Council of Tate Gallery, London and member of the Board of Kunstmuseum Zürich.