CEO

Thomas Kuhn

Thomas has more than 40 years of professional experience in asset management and in the global financial markets. He holds a Diploma in Social and Economic sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he wrote his Master's thesis on Financial Futures Hedging. Thomas has worked as a financial consultant and client relationship manager for leading global financial institutions like Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Shearson Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank Investment Management. He was an awarded member of the International Directors Council at Shearson Lehman Brothers. Thomas has acquired his experience at financial centres in Frankfurt, Monaco and Switzerland. In 2003 he founded SwissDirekt AG in Switzerland.

Managing Partner

Mats Hartling

Mats has more than 30 years of professional experience in the global financial markets and as an asset management executive. He is a Senior M&A Corporate Executive and Entrepreneur with a wide range of experience, particularly in the shipping industry, investment and financial industries. He has vast experience of overseeing M&A transactions in banking and asset management services, especially in Eastern Europe and Switzerland.

Chief Operating Officer

Eugene Collins

Eugene has over 15 years of front office investment banking experience as a CF30 regulated and authorized person, advising clients on structured investment solutions within several leading investment banks in the City of London. A former Head of Institutional Funds Solutions for a major alternative investment management firm and UCITS platform, managing over EUR 2Bn in assets. Most recently he worked within Barclays Risk Solutions Group covering interest rate hedging for UK and European corporate and institutional clients. He has also held several senior regulatory change and operations roles including, at HSBC Global Banking & Markets. He relocated to Switzerland with his family in 2020 and has since been working closely with wealthy families and (U)HNWIs to better service their wealth management needs.

Chief Investment Officer

Ricardo Della Santina

Ricardo has more than 38 years of professional experience in global financial markets and asset management, he also has an academic career as a professor in both Masters and MBA programs in the United States and Europe. Ricardo has a Bachelor's Degree in Economic Science and an MBA in Corporate Finance. He has a comprehensive experience as a trader as well as fund manager in international financial markets, bank instruments and structures, FX, global and Latin America fixed income and equity securities, and real estate fund structure management. He has acquired his professional experience in London, Paris, New York, São Paulo and Luxembourg.

Senior Wealth Manager

Ronald Holtkamp

Ronald has over 10 years experience (Shell, KPMG) as an international tax advisor (LL.M.) and more than 20y experience as a Private Banker/Family Officer (Pictet, Sarasin, UBS Singapore, Schroders) structuring wealth, delivering high-level wealth management services and solutions to entrepreneurs, wealthy families and (U)HNWIs. He has a broad experience in all aspects of asset management, family office services, tax-legal-financial engineering, wealth transfer solutions etc. Furthermore, he has an excellent understanding of legal and tax compliance and the cross border regulatory environment. He favours a ‘holistic’ approach to wealth management, carefully analysing a client’s legal, tax and financial needs to provide practical tailor-made solutions to his clients’ unique requirements with a timely implementation.

Senior Client Advisor

Tajona Scandola-Kirchgessner

Tajona has more than 25 years of experience in Business Development and Consultancy working with multi-national corporations and SMEs in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Tajona gained extensive experience in renowned international companies, including First Advisory Group (Vaduz, Liechtenstein) and Trade House Tatneft Ukraine (Gas and Oil sales). Tajona has organized and overseen many international economic seminars and forums with partners such as Roche, E.ON AG, Gazprom, Siemens, Allianz SE and Mercedes Benz Group AG.

Advisor to the Board

Dr. Dirk Posner

Having grown up in Europe and the US, Dirk has been advising family offices and institutional investors in Europe for the past 25 years. He has achieved top-quartile performance for investors and focuses on alternative investments and strategic advice to unlisted companies. Dirk has worked for Rothschilds, where he was advising on German and international M&A transactions and for Advent International Private Equity advising on European private equity transactions. Prior to this, he worked for Deutsche Bank in corporate finance and private equity in Frankfurt and Paris. He is a graduate of Frankfurt University where he studied business administration and physics prior to receiving a PhD scholarship in Economics. Dirk has published numerous articles on private equity issues and corporate finance topics and regularly speaks at conferences and universities.