Dr. Ralf Seiz is CEO and owner of Finreon AG and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Finpact AG. He is also a lecturer at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and a member of several boards of directors and foundations. Dr. Seiz was an assistant professor at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), a visiting research scholar at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the founder and managing director of a consulting firm, and before that a business analyst in the financial services sector. Before he received his doctorate in Economics (Dr. oec. HSG), he completed his studies in Physics at ETH Zurich (MSc./Dipl. Phys. ETH) and worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Dr. Ralf Seiz has many years of proven experience in the field of asset management, pension finance and mathematical finance. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Switzerland’s leading newspaper, ranked him among the most influential Swiss economists four years in a row between 2016 and 2019, reaching 8th place in 2018.