Speakers WMF 2011

Philip Richards is Executive Director, Founder and Honorary President of RAB Capital Ltd, a London fund Management Company focused on managing absolute return strategies – especially in natural resources. He co-founded the Company in 1999 and is...

Lisa joined LBBW Luxemburg S.A. (formerly Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz International S.A.) in 1992. After starting in the dealing room she moved to the credit department, where she gained experience in syndicated loans as well as project and special finance. In 1999 she became...

Don has worked as an investment and finance professional in Europe for the past fifteen years and spent the last eight years identifying, analyzing and managing portfolios of undervalued securities in the European equity and distressed debt markets. Prior to that he...

Isabelle Bourcier joined Société Générale in 1994, where she was initially in charge of marketing structured products, before moving on in 1996 to head the bank’s interest rate, currency and commodity warrants division. Since 2000 to January 2011, She was...

Thibaud de Cherisey holds a diploma from SFAF (French Association of Financial Analysts). He joined Invesco Asset Management in February 2008 as Head of European ETF Development. His role is to develop the ETF activities in Continental Europe...

Egon von Greyerz (EvG) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management (MAM) and its Precious Metals Division - GoldSwitzerland, based in Zurich Switzerland. EvG started his working life as a banker in Geneva and thereafter spent 17 years...

Marcus Grubb joined the World Gold Council in June 2008; he leads investment research, marketing gold as an asset class with partners such as ETF Securities and is a board director of BullionVault, in which the World Gold Council is invested. He is a worldwide spokesperson for the World...

At the height of a successful career in the computer industry, Mr. Cobb left to pursue more pioneering opportunities in the emerging real estate markets of Central America. In 1996, he and his business partner formed a company, Exotic Caye International, to provide loans...

Joel M. Nagel is founder and managing partner of the international law firm of Nagel & Associates, LLC. The firm is Pittsburgh’s first law boutique focusing exclusively on international commercial transactions and immigration. Nagel & Associates has grown 30-fold in business...

Oliver Prock is CEO and CIO of Salus Alpha Capital. He graduated from Vienna University of Business and Economics with an MBA and has gained experience in different investment fields such as financial engineering, product development, trading and sales. He started...

Nicolas Bourg is the CEO and founding partner of BRDB along with Ph De Backer and Th Relecom. He is an established entrepreneur having successfully created and sold start-up companies in a variety of fields such as digital printing (e.g.Tictacbook, Tictacphoto);...

Diego Parrilla is the founder and CIO of NARECO Advisors, an Asset Manager focused on Natural Resources and Commodities based in Singapore. Prior to founding NARECO in 2011, Diego earned 20 years of professional and academic experience in natural resources...

Estelle Hirtz is IG Markets’ Branch Manager in Luxembourg. With more than 11 years experience in Finance, Estelle has developed a strong expertise in training by developing and running adapted programs for Retail clients. In 2005 she specialized into active...

Jacques provides Swiss-based compliance, family office and asset management services to wealth management firms with client operations in Switzerland. Educated in the UK and trained in South America, he worked many years in commodity trade finance (BNP Paribas)...

Ron William, CMT, MSTA is a Technical Strategist at MIG Bank in Switzerland, focusing on key FX, Commodities / Gold and cross-asset markets. He has over ten years of financial market experience, previously working for leading economic research and consultancy...

David B. Pinkerton joined Falcon Private Bank in October 2011 as Chief Investment Officer. Previously, he was a Managing Director in the Alternative Investments Group at AIG Investments in New York. Mr. Pinkerton also set up a successful external asset management business...

Director at BTG Tax, Jeff was previously Inspector of Taxes with HMRC, Specialist Investigations. He had worked in HMRC for 24 years. He undertook a variety of enquiries into a number of high profile sporting individuals who were resident but not domiciled in the UK. Jeff has...

Stéphanie Hodara El Bez- Responsible of the banking and financial services practice of the Geneva office of ALTENBURGER LTD legal + tax. She is admitted to the Geneva and New York Bars and is also a Professor of commercial law at the Geneva Department for Institutions...

Trevor Bradley is the Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer for Georgetown Trust, Limited. He has lived in Belize all his life, gaining a wealth of experience in this jurisdiction's banking and tourism industries over the past 19 years, with a thorough grip on its political and...

Heide Jimenez Davila joined BlueOrchard from Lombard Odier Asset Management (Switzerland) SA, where she was Head of Sales Suisse romande since March 2010. During her more than 13 years with Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie, she served as Fixed Income...