Pieter R. Danielsson, the President & Chairman of Avis Financial Corporation, is a merchant banker and management consultant who has financed and assisted over fifty companies. Danielsson earned his degree in economics in Fribourg, Switzerland. He then pursued a banking education with UBS, where he later worked as an asset manager. Before establishing his own consulting and asset management company in 1988, he held the position of Director and Europe Area Head at Citicorp Private Bank.
Stephan Radermacher began his career as an attorney-at-law at German and U.S. corporate law firms, with law degrees from Munich University (J.D.) and Duke University (LL.M.). He was hired by ABB in 1992 and held high-level positions including CFO of the global power generation segment, comprising 200 reporting units, 40,000 employees and a business volume in excess of $10 billion. After his time at ABB, Mr. Radermacher played a vital role in the successful turn-around of a large private German company and subsequently became the CFO of the international shipyard group HDW. More recently, he has provided assistance to a social responsibility project of the World Bank and joined the Swiss management consultancy Matrixs.
Sebastian Danielsson has Bachelor and Masters degrees in Philosophy from King's College and Birkbeck College, London. After holding various positions in different enterprises, he now works as a business developer and has recently assisted in the restructuring of a high-end watch company.
Michael Forster is an Asset Manager and Financial Consultant. Mr. Forster holds an International Executive MBA, as well as degrees in finance, marketing and management. He spent several years working for AWD (Swiss Life) as a financial consultant, asset manager and, finally, Vice Chief in Zürich. He was also a member of the board of Asset Management Switzerland AG and Yamamoto Asset Management AG.
Richard van Bruchem has a broad range of experience in trust business and international finance management. He has headed the finance departments of ING Trust, Lovells and Baker & McKenzie's and a private real estate investment fund responsible for accounting, financing and tax. He has studied both business economics and business administration and he holds a Masters degree in accounting and controlling from Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands.