Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Business Head/MD within international Finance for listed corporations and family owned businesses with a proven track record in new Business Development, Financial Engineering and Investing. Leading Business Units and developing from scratch new, digital, scalable and profitable business models with a high customer centricity. Extensive capital market competencies with CHF 60bn in volume based on a broad Swiss and international client network. Financial Engineering with particular specialisation in product development, structured solutions, investment products, risk management, derivatives, asset-liability management, hedging, quantitative models, sales and trading systems. Served in portfolio management as a quantitative advisor for a fund of hedge funds and track record for value investing within family office. Strong leadership skills and strategic thinking, underpinned by a profound academic education in finance and technical mathematics incl. computer science. My core values are based on integrity, responsibility, resilience, trust, courage and performance.
Private Family Office
The Swiss Marketplace Lending Association (SMLA) brings together all stakeholders of marketplace lending. The SMLA’s goals are to increase the transparency of the asset class for professional and private investors, to raise awareness for marketplace lending, and to foster the cooperation within the sector.
cosmofunding is the leading Swiss fixed income ecosystem connecting issuers and investors. As of 1H2025, we have transacted volumes of more than CHF 52 billion with trades of more than a billion CHF per month from 2 weeks to 50 years and CHF 300k minimum volume to CHF 300 million maximum per issuance so far. We offer three products: Public Bond, Private Placement, Loan Active in B2B and B2B4C. Switzerland, via Bank Vontobel Europe cosmofunding is newly in Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and soon UK Sectors: Public and near-public, corporates, financials, real estate and fund finance. + Responsible for the entire value chain of (debt) capital markets within Vontobel, including customer (issuers and investors) acquisition and the ongoing relationship management, account management, in-house platform application development & operations as well as new product development, new issuance & dealing and enlarging the ecosystem with partners and suppliers + Leadership and further development of the business unit cosmofunding, building a diverse and winning team of talents from top seniors to juniors + Member of the Structured Solutions and Treasury Management Team
Having co-founded the fixed income ecosystem cosmofunding - The now leading digital financing platform for public bonds, private placements and loans.
+ Business innovator and business owner of cosmofunding: Built up own area of responsibility + Responsibility to setting up and committing to a long-term oriented quantitative, as well as qualitative business case, executing and delivering according to the agreed business plan and presenting the progress in regular milestones to Vontobel’s executive board and board of directors
Representing Bank Vontobel AG in the National Working Group and Sub-Working Group (Derivatives and Capital Market) at SNB. The NWG and the sub-group had been the key forum for successfully reforming reference interest rates in Switzerland and ensuring international alignment. Having shaped the termsheets for SARON Futures, Caps & Floors, Cross-Currency Basis Swaps and contributed in transforming the industry to SARON. At the same time: LIBOR transition project and implementation lead at Vontobel.