Managing Partner (co-founder) Alpha Governance Partners
Alpha Governance Partners®, the only global, jurisdiction-agnostic conflict-free, high-end fiduciary, risk-cultured partnership providing idiosyncratic risk-focused professional directors to boards of any vehicle investing in, allocating to, trading or overlooking complex investments - AuG USD 14 bn in 12 global jurisdictions in various alternative investment strategies – presence in Copenhagen, Geneva, London, Singapore and Zurich
Formative Experience
Managing a burning hedge fund platform at Credit Suisse, the Lehman-, Madoff-, Parmalat-events, a pan-African advisory project at a Lagos-listed bank, controlling exponential growth in investments, reorganizing for enhanced compliance, the UBS/SBC-merger integration and ABN AMRO-training
Career
Professional Director, 2015- (currently involved with emerging markets, hedge funds, private debt, quant overlay, blockchain) 8 years as C-level in wealth- and alternative investment management a.o. COO at Credit Suisse (Alternative Investments), with teams in Zurich, London, New York, Pune with risk-based veto rights (AuM USD 17 bn), Group-CFO at partner-owned alternatives provider Millennium Global Investments (backed by RIT Capital) in Geneva and London (AuM USD 15 bn), CFO at UHNWI-manager Centrum Bank, Vaduz (AuM USD 10 bn), now part of VP Bank, Vaduz and CFO of the UBS Corporate Center, Zurich (incl. Group Treasury, -Participations and -Real Estate (USD 7 bn))
5 years as consultant, incl. at PwC Zurich, with focus on small and large international investment organizations incl. alternative investments, emerging and frontier markets. 7 years as institutional banker and financial analyst at ABN AMRO Amsterdam, UBS Basel
Individual directorships in alternative investments and emerging markets throughout his career
Education
PhD Economic Sciences (Basel), M Laws (London), Exec. M Positive Leadership (Madrid, exp. 2018), MSc & BSc Business Administration, BEng Mechanical Engineering (all Rotterdam), exchanged with Princeton (Economics)
CFA, CDir, CIFD, CAIA, FRM, CMA, CPM, CL6σBB, ACIArb, executive education at Chicago, Harvard, INSEAD, Stanford and Wharton
Extracurricular
Languages: English, Dutch, (Swiss) German, with a base in French, Mandarin and Spanish
Adjunct Professor Finance Ethics, HEC Lausanne. Instructor Risk Management, Euromoney, London/Dubai and Swiss Finance Institute, Zurich. Program Director APAC, Certified Investment Fund Director Institute, Dublin. Member, Hedge Fund Working Group, UNPRI, London. Volunteer, CFA Institute and CAIA Association, United States. Editor, Governing Complex Investments, Wiley, 2018
Enjoys (professional) literature, seasonal sports and family, > 15 years of substantial private exposure to China, visited approx. 100 countries
