Dr. Raymond Wicki
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 18:08
Mr. Wicki is a graduate from the University of Berne where he received a
degree in Business Administration and a PhD in Finance and Taxation. He also
holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Kent State University,
Ohio USA.

After working as an investment analyst for Hoffmann-La Roche he was hired by
the industrial organisation of the Aga Khan where he spent almost eight
years as Head of Finance for all worldwide industrial activities.

In the late seventies Mr. Wicki together with two partners became a pioneer
of European venture capital by creating one of the first European venture
capital funds active not only in the US but also in Germany and Switzerland.
This Swiss based fund is still active.

As of 1983 Mr. Wicki was active in private and institutional portfolio
management, first for a Zurich based private bank, then for one of the large
Swiss banks where he was charged with building and managing an independent
institutional portfolio management company.

Between 1990 and early 2000 Mr. Wicki was the CEO of Bank von Graffenried, a
family owned private bank in Berne. Mr. Wicki founded this bank and built it
from a small operation into a mid-sized money management bank.

Mr. Wicki was a co-founder of M2, a Swiss investment company (where he was
chairman of the board for five years) and of Berne Venture, a Berne based
venture capital fund. Of the latter Mr. Wicki is vice-chairman. Mr. Wicki is
chairman of a listed Swiss investment company, MachHitech in Zug.

Mr. Wicki is an active board member in a number of industrial, finance and
service companies in Switzerland, Germany and previously in the USA.
 
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