Hummler had a
bourgeois upbringing in the city of
St. Gallen. He was the son of former
national councillor and attorney Alfred Hummler (1915-2010) and Verena (
née Stucki). He completed his
Matura at
Kantonsschule am Burggraben before studying law at
University of Zurich (
doctorate) and economics at the
University of Rochester in
Rochester, New York (
MBA). After his studies he launched his banking career at
Swiss Bank Corporation (today's
UBS) in 1981. Initially, as a
financial analyst and later as personal assistant to chairman
Robert Holzach. In 1989, he began to work for
Wegelin & Co. and subsequently became a
Managing Partner in 1991. He has also been a board member of the
Swiss Bankers Association until 2004. From 2004, he was a council member of
Swiss National Bank and the
German Stock Exchange. From 2008-11 he was also president of the
Swiss Private Bankers Association. Between 2002-11 he had been a board member of
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, being elected president from 2011-12, remaining a member until his resignation in 2013. Until 2011 he was president of the
Chamber of Industry and Commerce St. Gallen-Appenzell. Since 2010, Hummler is a board member of
Bühler Group in
Uzwil. He is chairman of M1 AG, a private
think tank for strategic time questions as well as of
Nebelspalter AG and
Private Client Bank AG in
Zürich. Hummler is also active as benefactor and philanthropist. He has founded the
J.S. Bach Foundation in St. Gallen with his own means which he currently chairs. == Private ==