GOLDSWITZERLAND - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Founder of Brunner & Partner
Christian Brunner is the founder of Brunner & Partner, a Zurich law firm, specialising in Financial Services, Commercial and Corporate Law and Private Clients.
Edward is a Dutch native and has been active in financial markets since 1975, beginNing at AMRO Bank. In 1978, Ed joined Hunter Douglas NV (Luxaflex) as Assistant Treasurer.
Ed first met Egon in 1980 and joined Dixons Group PLC in London as Group Treasurer in 1982. As an IT systems expert, Ed has also created unique proprietary risk management tools and strategies. After 12 years of pursuing other interests, Ed teamed up with Egon for a second time in 2008 to support and develop the MAM business model.
Ed retired in 2019 as a Partner of MAM and is now a Consultant of the business.
Born with dual Swiss/Swedish citizenship, Egon's education was mainly in Sweden.
Egon began his professional life in Geneva as a banker and thereafter spent 17 years as the Finance Director and Executive Vice-Chairman of Dixons Group Plc. During that time, Dixons expanded from a small photographic retailer to a FTSE 100 company and the largest consumer electronics retailer in the UK.
Grant has spent 30 years in finance, holding senior positions with many leading financial institutions around the world.
He is the co-founder of RealVision TV, an online, on-demand financial channel showcasing the brightest minds in finance. He also publishes "Things That Make You Go Hmmm", an extremely popular and widely-read publication.
Grant is very much in demand as a speaker at financial investment conferences around the world. He has a wonderful and natural ability to mix finance, history and humor into greatly appreciated presentations.
Grant's views about the world economy, risk and the role of gold are very much aligned with MAM's philosophy.
Based out of Zurich and Singapore, Jan previously worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management as a senior portfolio manager for Emerging Markets with a premium mandate of advising global, High-Net-Worth clients. At MAM, Jan is primarily responsible for managing and advising MAM's German-speaking market, while tailoring customized solutions for MAM's Swiss and Singapore vaults.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Partners & Management Team
- Partner
Johny started his finance career in the trading department at Barclays Capital in London.
He has more than 20 years' experience in trading/marketing and brokerage. During his time in London, Johny served as a senior broker at ICAP Plc, the world's leading inter-dealer broker. Johny has been an advisor to MAM since its foundation in 1999 and joined as a Partner in 2012. His main role at MAM is covering the sales, marketing and trading side of the business.
Job Titles:
- Commercial Director
- Partner
Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001.
Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley's hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the most reliable and longer-term protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join MAM.
The author of the Amazon No#1 Release, Rigged to Fail, Matt is fluent in French, German and English; he is a graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD).
Graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD) with extensive experience in securities law, trading and management
Max is the founder and CEO of Aquila & Co. Ltd. in Zurich.
Job Titles:
- Finance Director
- Member of the Partners & Management Team
- Partner
In addition to finance & CONTROL, Nicolas is responsible for compliance and IT.
Nicolas previously worked in different roles in Finance & Control at Nestlé and holds a master's degree in Banking and Finance (MBF) and a double bachelor's degree from the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. Nicolas is also a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certificate holder and has passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Managing Partner of Incrementum AG
Ronni is the managing partner of Incrementum AG in Lichtenstein. He studied business administration and finance in the USA and Austria.
Upon graduation, he joined Erste Group, where in 2007 he published his first In Gold We Trust report. Over the years, this report has become the industry's benchmark publication on gold, currencies, and inflation.
Since 2013, Ronni has held the position as reader at Scholarium in Vienna. In 2014, he co-authored the international bestseller "Austrian School for Investors," and in 2019 "Die Nullzinsfalle" (The Zero Interest Rate Trap). He is an advisor for Tudor Gold Corp, a significant explorer in British Columbia's Golden Triangle and a member of the advisory board of Affinity Metals.
Ronni is married and the proud father of three daughters. He spends his spare time with his family, watching and playing football, running, and at classical concerts.