Karl Schmedders is Professor of Finance at IMD, the international business school with campuses in Lausanne and Singapore. He also serves as a Visiting Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA. Before joining IMD, Karl held the Chair of Quantitative Business Administration at the University of Zurich. Prior to that, he spent ten years on the faculty at Northwestern University. He earned his PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University. Karl is a Fellow of the Game Theory Society and an Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET).
Since early 2017 Alexander Lanz has been the Managing Director of the Happel Foundation which is based in Lucerne. Prior to that, he served as COO of Vescore AG. Between October 2013 and June 2015, he was COO for the business areas Institutional Clients & Asset Management at Notenstein Privatbank AG. Before that, he was engaged in different management positions at Bank Sarasin & Co Ltd. (now Bank J. Safra Sarasin). In 2004, Alexander Lanz graduated with a law degree from the University of Basel. In addition, he holds an Executive MBA with a specialization in Global Leadership & Intercultural Management from the Institute for Communication & Management (formerly the Institute for Communication Research) in Lucerne.
Patrick Walker is the Head of Investment Solutions and a member of the executive board at OLZ AG. Before joining OLZ, he gained valuable experience at Commerzbank and Ernst & Young. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Zurich and a Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, both earned with distinction. His academic background also includes studies in mathematics and economics at the University of Tübingen and the University of Birmingham. Patrick specializes in financial econometrics, statistics, and risk management. He was a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York City and is currently a lecturer at the Department of Finance at the University of Zurich.
Michel Degosciu is managing partner of LPX AG. He co-founded LPX in 2004 and is responsible for Business Development. Prior to LPX, Michel conducted various studies on the private equity asset class at the Department of Finance, University of Basel. He holds a master degree with a major in Corporate Finance from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and a PhD from University of Basel.
Robin Jakob is managing partner of LPX AG. During his academic career, he focused on research in the area of infrastructure at the Department of Finance, University of Basel. He holds a master degree with a major in Finance and a PhD in Finance from University of Basel under the supervison of Prof. Dr. Heinz Zimmermann.
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