Background
Schmidt-Chiari was born in Vienna, Austria, the eldest child of Guido Schmidt.
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Guido Schmidt-Chiari
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He returned to Austria and in 1956 received his Doctor of Philosophy in law from the University of Vienna.
Career
Stephanie Schmidt-Chiari is a direct cousin of the American music producer Chris Strachwitz. In 1952 Guido Schmidt-Chiari moved to Brazil to work for a subsidiary of Alpine-Mountain in Rio de Janeiro and in 1953 set up the São Paulo distribution branch for Jenbacher Werke products. In 1957 Guido Schmidt-Chiari worked for the Belgian-American Banking Corporation in New New York
In 1958 he began work at Creditanstalt in Vienna, in 1971 he was appointed to the Executive Board and further promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 1988.
After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Schmidt-Chiari initiated the expansion of Creditanstalt into Central European countries. Following the acquisition of Creditanstalt by Bank Austria Schmidt-Chiari resigned in 1997.
The Schmidt-Chiari family have a large equity stake in two family businesses: Joseph Schmidt"s Erben (founded in 1887) an industrial distribution company and the Arlberger Bergbahnen AG (founded in 1937), a ski lift operator with resorts in Austria and Poland. The main lift business operates the world-renowned ski resort of Saint Anton am Arlberg Schmidt-Chiari has also chaired the supervisory board of several leading Austrian companies (inter alia: Wienerberger AG, Semperit AG, Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Andritz AG) and held a wide variety of other posts including being on the Morgan Stanley European Advisory Board and the General Council of Assicurazioni Generali, Trieste.
He was the President of the Austrian Bankers Association and founded the Austrian Delegation to the Trilateral Commission.
Membership
Stephanie Schmidt-Chiari is a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA ) and Guido Schmidt-Chiari is an Advisory Board Member of Mumok, Vienna as well as on the Board of Directors of the Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna.
