For the past 15 years, Florian has been a successful member of the investment banking and wealth management community. He worked as the head of corporate bonds trading for UBS Investment Bank in Zürich and London as well as country desk head for Wealth Management with UBS in Zürich. In between he worked as the sales leader for structured products at ZKB. To no surprise, Florian understands the needs of investors like no other.

Florian has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Zürich.

Michel is a financial regulation specialist who worked as Legal Counsel at UBS Investment Bank and structurer for private equity investments.

His greatest strength lies in implementing new ideas and structuring processes. With his affinity to code and natural talent for UI/UX and design, he is our guy for innovation and product development.

He holds a Masters degree of Law from University of Zurich and is admitted to the bar.

Luzi is a senior software developer with a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.

With ten years under his belt as a programmer at Ergon he has the experience and expertise in system architecture as well as sheer coding which both are instrumental for achieving the long term goals of LEND as a Fintech company. Luzi loves Portugal and will always be there to catch a couple of waves after a day's work.

Andreas has developed extensive knowledge and expertise in portfolio-, risk- and asset management.

In his career he spent time as an energy trader at Swiss utility BKW and during the global financial crisis he worked as portfolio manager within the money market and foreign exchange department at the Swiss National Bank. Thereafter, Andreas joined The Dow Chemical Company as financial risk manager and later moved to the Portfolio Investments Group where he oversaw pension assets.

Andreas has a master’s degree in Economics from University of Zurich and studied one year in the USA. He is an avid skier and proud father of two kids.

Fatma is an expert in digital solutions and has a strong Finance background.

She started her professional career at GE as part of its Finance Management Program where she gained expertise in various Finance areas from Controlling to Pricing.

She moved to Switzerland in 2012 and worked as a Lead Pricing Analyst for GE Money Bank specialising in pricing modelling for personal loans and credit cards. She then successfully implemented a new internet banking platform as a digital solution manager. She was then promoted to B2C Digital Solution leader and was responsible for the strategy and development of all B2C solutions.

Fatma studied in different places from Oxford(UK) to Sydney (Australia) and holds a Master degree of International Business Finance from Macquarie University. She plays Tennis and loves Surfing.

Roman is our expert for the SME business. He has 24 years experience in commercial lending.

Back in 1994, he took his first steps at UBS at the Corporate Desk Latin America. After further positions in project and leverage finance in New York, he joined ABB with the believe to examine and finance infrastructure projects worldwide. However, soon after the start he had to analyze the employer itself and support the sale of its own finance department. This resulted in a one-year stay at GE Structured Finance.

With fresh energy, Roman co-founded a financial boutique in 2004 for Caterpillar Inc to support infrastructure and mining projects in the emerging markets. Responsible for the strategic direction, risk, portfolio & operation, he applied after successful 7 years the same business model at the Australian Investment Bank Macquarie. Ignoring the change in the banking world and having survived 4 years, he finally got inspired by the IPO of the US Lending Group. First at Cashare and now at Switzerlend AG, Roman found the access to his new inspiration.

Roman studied political science at the University of St.Gallen. He is a juror at Venture Kick and acts as business angel in some startups. He is an adrenaline junkie and believes he can still do the things he did many years ago. 25 forever!

Stefan has worked for almost 20 years as a strategy consultant in Financial Services at Oliver Wyman, the global strategy consulting firm. He helped create and build the capital markets and market infrastructure practices in New York and London and as partner, he founded the global Wealth and Asset Management Practice and headed the Swiss Market.

Stefan is now a Digital Entrepreneur in the Fintech area with a deep conviction that the new technologies together with business redesign permit to transform the financial industry with great benefits for everyone. Stefan contributes his extensive expertise across the Financial Services industry and his strategic thinking.

Stefan holds a doctorate in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Uni Genève) and a Master in Economics from the National University of Singapore. Stefan is a CFA charterholder and has earned the Financial Risk Managmenet (FRM) designation.

Ronny graduated from an apprenticeship in merchandising and then served in the Swiss army. He brings comprehensive know-how in accounting and billing and works in Finance & Accounting. Due to his can-do attitude and high quality of work he was given a lot of responsibility in these areas.

 Ronny is very focused and strives for a career as emancipated entrepreneur.

Nino brings several years of experience from the operative side of the consumer loan business into the Team of LEND. After four years in the traditional banking business he decided to specialise in private loans, where he worked for the market leader Cembra Money Bank, former GE-Money Bank, as a consultant in the credit broker business. His expertise includes credit underwriting, loan management and servicing.

Nino is studying Business Communications at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.

Marco has over 10 years of experience in the consumer loan business and is well versed in the leasing business. Working at traditional market leaders, he was able to acquire a comprehensive knowledge in the care of the most important partners and customers and thanks to his foreign language skills, he was also increasingly as a middleman on the front line. He knows what is important and his trained eye allows him to identify bad risks in a short time. His experience in the debt collection industry as well as knowledge in debt collection and bankruptcy law (SchKG) are a great asset too.

Thibaut has a commercial and technical background. He started his career as a sourcing analyst within GE European HQ in Brussels in 2007, and then relocated to Italy to work as a global strategic analyst for a GE branch.

He gained expertise in analytics, process improvement and strategy implementation in a new global sourcing organization, while he developed tailored IT tools to track performance and build synergies. He became responsible for various sourcing portfolios (IT, Telecom, Utilities, etc.) as a global commodity manager, improving his commercial skills.

Thibaut holds a Master degree from Montpellier Business School (FR), a BA equivalent in Engineering (FR) and a BA in Business Administration (UK). He also plays bass guitar.

Blerim has over six years of work experience in client consulting. He also brings a wealth of experience in finance and insurance. Blerim complements the Operations Team with his international experience and Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on Banking & Finance.

In Switzerland, he began his career with an insurance company, where he gained in-depth knowledge of credit risk assessment and contract management. Due to his affinity for numbers and their interpretation, he successfully completed a further education in accounting at KV Business School Zurich.

Nils has been working in software development for 20 years. His first position as a developer at Minick Switzerland was followed by eight years as CTO of Run my Accounts AG. LEND is the third start-up where Nils will bring in his experience and strengthen the "Tech" in Fintech.

He holds a degree in physics from ETH Zurich. He spends the summer holidays sailing in Sweden. In winter you may meet him in the POW on his splitboard.

Magdalena has 15 years of credit and financing experience and works at Switzerlend AG in the commercial lending business where she analyses and implements SME loans.

She took her first steps in corporate banking at ABN Amro Bank N.V. in Zurich followed by 10 years Magdalena at Zurich Cantonal Bank where she gained a deep understanding and vast experience in corporate banking and the credit business; whether small companies or blue chips, in different positions she studied companies from various industries. She is an expert in the areas of acquisition, consulting/support, financing, structuring and credit risk analysis and particularly proud of her contribution to SME succession financing. Through structured financing solutions she accompanied numerous companies into the future or next generation.

The call for change then led Magdalena to BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA where she spent 3 years as a credit risk specialist managing a challenging portfolio of SMEs, listed and multinational companies. She also managed a team in Zurich and built another team up in Lisbon.

She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Zurich School of Economics and expanded her expertise with a MAS in Corporate Finance at the IFZ in Zug.

Schafiq has many years of experience in the leasing business and in trade with industrial goods. His career began in the family business Kakar GmbH & Co. KG as International Sales Manager. He specialised in the sale of trucks, construction machinery, buses and industrial plants on almost all continents. Later he took over additional tasks in the areas of credit risk assessment and compliance. After a five-year engagement with the BNP Paribas Group as Senior Credit Risk Analyst for SMEs and Corporates, he decided to enter the crowdlending business. Schafiq's expertise is in credit risk assessment, credit management and customer service. Starting with Lendico Schweiz AG and now with LEND, Schafiq can follow his passion for credit and risk in a modern marketplace lending environment.

Schafiq holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a focus on Finance & Accounting, Controlling and Energy Economics from the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Munich. He is very interested in politics and economics.

Felice is responsible for the sale of SME financing solutions and general customer management. She is also the primary contact person regarding distribution of the LEND offering within our cooperation partner PostFinance.

During her studies she worked directly with the CEO of a small company in procurement, sales and warehouse management. As Junior Controller in an event and hotel business in Germany, she gained experience in implementing internal and external guidelines. At Crowdlender Lendico, Felice acquired new customers and cooperation partners. Maintaining existing business relationships as well as planning and implementing marketing activities are among her strengths. She has sound SME experience and knows their needs and challenges during a financing process.

Felice holds a Master of Science in Corporate & Business Development from the FHSG University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen. In her spare time Felice sings semi-professional and preferably soul.

Markus is the CEO of the Pension Fund of SBB, the Swiss Federal Railways. Previously, he was the country head of the newly created office of Barclays Global Investors BGI in Switzerland. Before joining BGI, he started his career at Credit Suisse where he worked for over 20 years in various positions. When leaving Credit Suisse he worked within the Asset Management division and was responsible for the quantitative strategies group, which managed index and quantitative active portfolios for Swiss and international institutional investors.

Markus holds a degree in economics and computer science (lic.rer.pol.) from the University of Bern and is a Certified International Investment Analyst CIIA.

Dr. Martin Rutishauser has been involved in technology and innovation projects for over 25 years. He is an Executive Partner of Zühlke Ventures AG and a member of the Board of Directors of the Zühlke Group. Before joining the Board of Directors, he was a member of Zühlke Group Management from 2003 to 2018. As responsible Executive Partner he founded Zühlke Ventures AG in 2010, which specializes in financing and coaching technology start-ups.

Martin Rutishauser studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich, where he also obtained his doctorate. He completed his technical education with an Executive MBA at IMD in Lausanne.

Ralph Mogicato has more than 25 years experience in the financial industry in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Singapore. He is co-founder and CEO of the Swiss consulting company Synpulse (formerly Solution Provider) with over 400 employees in the banking and insurance sector.

Ralph Mogicato is well experienced in strategy development and execution for banks and insurance companies. He has in-depth knowledge as well as his own work and consulting experience in defining business cases, make-or-buy decisions, evaluation support for core banking and insurance systems, quality assurance for major projects. 

Today he is a Fintech Angel Investor, senior consultant and professional board member, lecturer at the University of Zurich and lecturer at Kaleidos University of Applied Sciences as well as guest lecturer at IFZ, University of St. Gallen and Swiss Finance Institute. He is also a board member of CREALOGIX Holding AG, a member of the Swiss ICT Investors Club (SICTIC) and a member of various Fintech associations in Switzerland, England and Asia.

Peter Hinder started his career in 1987 at Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC). After a few years as

Relationship Manager for Corporate Clients he moved on to SBC’s head office in 1996. There he was responsible for the development and roll-out of credit risk rating and pricing tools as well as post-merger integration of risk and product management functions in UBS Switzerland. From 1999 onwards, Peter successfully built-up an active Credit Portfolio Management team. Under his leadership, UBS issued its first synthetic Credit Linked Obligation (CLO), followed by a few other loan portfolio transactions.

Peter then worked in different roles at UBS such as Global Head of Banking Products, Regional Managing Director for Basel, and COO of Group Treasury overseeing the development and implementation of the new group-wide liquidity and funding framework. In 2010 Peter left UBS to become the CEO of Thurgau Cantonal Bank where he was responsible for the successful realignment of the bank, followed by its initial public offering.

In November 2015, Peter Hinder joined Deutsche Bank as Chief of Staff of the Private, Wealth & Commercial Clients (PW&CC) division. He led several strategic change programs like the restructuring and realignment of the German Private and Commercial Client network as well as the new strategic positioning of Global Wealth Management. Over the past two years, Peter Hinder was Head of Wealth Management EMEA and CEO of Deutsche Bank (Switzerland) AG.

Peter has held several non-executive board memberships, within and outside the banking industry.

Born in 1971, Peter is married and lives with his two children in Weinfelden, Switzerland. He holds the Swiss Federal Diploma in Banking and Finance and is a graduate of the PMD program at Harvard Business School, Boston USA.

Richard is a pioneer for high-frequency trading with vast professional experience. He is also known for his scientific work in the area of „market microstructure“.

He is Co-Founder of the FX platform Oanda, a market maker for foreign exchange trading and provider of foreign exchange data. He developed the first fully automated FX trading platform offering second-by-second interest payments Due to his achievements he is viewed as a true visionary for new technologies and concepts. Also today he is shaping the blockchain scene with his company Lykke.

Richard is also visiting professor at the „Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents“ at the university of Essex. Richard is on a mission to transform financial markets into a seamlessly functioning system and to remove the structural weaknesses which we seem to have accepted.