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Teaching digital entrepreneurship & lifelong passion for learning

Professor

Wo/men Inc. 

Board Member

DGE Digitized German Engineering 

Co-Founder

Artus Real GmbH

Geschäftsführer

Stiftung für Kinder und Jugendliche 

Charitable Foundation (Stiftung) for children in need

Vorstandsmitglied

Family Office

Member of the Supervisory Board / Managing Partner

Leonhardt Rechtsanwälte

Lawyer

AVE & YOU

Co-Founder and CEO AVE & YOU

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Partners LLP,

Consultant

kloeckner.i GmbH

Managing director, COO & Consultant

*Co-Founder of AVE & YOU . A beauty-tech company launched in 2018 together with dermatologists and our customers. The first in Europe to personalize skincare online by using technology and data. 

*Co-Founder of DGE Digitized German Engineering (Technology Provider).

*Managing Director and investor Family Office 

*Professor for ‘Digital Entrepreneurship’

*High profile manager, lawyer & investor, based in Berlin, formerly working as COO, MD and advisor for corporates & private equity funds.

*Passionate about entrepreneurship, startups, venture capital and private equity. Active player in the Berlin startup ecosystem as Angel and strategic adviser/board member for several companies.

*Former member of senior leadership team of Rocket Internet SE, helped to grow Rocket from a small startup to Europe's largest tech company including IPO work in 2014. Executing board decisions within the global Rocket startup network in 110+ countries, worked with 50+ founder teams.

*Former COO/MD kloeckner.i - the digital hub of Klöckner&Co SE (one of the largest producer-independent distributors of steel and metal products) - and kloeckner.v – the corporate venture capital fund specialized in investing in disruptive B2B business models that fit Klöckner's digital strategy.

Dr Franziska Leonhardt

HYPHEN Capital

Head of Investor Relations

NEXU

Manging Partner

Banque Bonhôte & Cie SA

Fund selection for both internal and external needs / Open  Platform creation

Bonhote Fund Solutions: Fund Distribution

MD Capital SA (Authorised and Regulated by FINMA)

Fund Distribution for Qualified Institutional Investors

Partner / Head of Fund Distribution

Pictet & Cie

Head of Unit Institutional Clients Sales Ex-Cusdtody 
Joined Pictet North America as Head of sales for both US and Canadian entities. SEC and CSA registred. 

In 2009 was promoted to the Global Head of Sales, with teams in Geneva, London and Montreal, was also responsible for the global sales-trading team, leading in total of more than15 people.

Global Head of Institutional Brokerage

WM Capital

Joined  in 2004 WM Capital Private Equity in Zurich he was responsible for Sales/ Distribution of PE Funds and Private Placement to Institutional Investors , raised 80%+ of funds for the firm.

Head of Sales / Distribution

Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers / Switzerland, in charge of Equity Research Product Distribution and Sales Trading for Switzerland.

Head of Sales Trading ans Distribution Switzerland

JPMorgan Chase

Responsible for Pan European Equity Products Distribution to Switzerland.

Registered at FSA ( now FCA)

Director Head of Sales and Distribution for Switzerland

Credit Suisse

Head of Swiss Equity Research Distribution team for European-French speaking countries, then built up a team for sales-trading and prop-trading.

Registered at SWX.

Director / Head of Sales

Societe Generale

Head of Sales / Distribution for French Speaking Switzerland & UK

Registered at SWX.

Vice President

* Fund and Financial product distribution to Institutional Qualified Investors

* Business Development/Expansion Institutional clients.

 * Proven track record in acquisition and team management in various products, locations, languages and legal environments.

 * Experience in building up and implementing new business in a new market: strategy, business plan, recruiting / training staff and work flows creation.

 * Strategy of expansion of existing business in an efficient and sustainable manner. 

* Client / geographical footprint. 

* Hands-on, sales-oriented manager with proactive clients approach.

* Strong determination to produce results.

* Specialties: Very strong acquisition & selling skills

* Result oriented

* Organizing the business flow from scratch 

* Improving business penetration and / or implementing new

* Fluent in French, English and German

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