About us
Management board
Mr. Rolf Sachs, Chairman
Rolf Sachs has been working for his family office with primary responsibilities in fund management. Over the past years he was particularly active in analysing and investing with third party managers. His broad and thorough expertise was acquired over the years through close contact with managers around the globe. Having developed this know-how in allocating assets to traditional, hedge fund and private equity managers, the family office is reckoned to be among the leaders in this field in Europe. Mr Sachs serves on the boards of several companies who specialise in the alternative investment sector. Prior to joining the family office, he worked as a trainee with Schroder Wagg. He studied mathematics at the London School of Economics before graduating at Menlo Business School where he received a BsBa in Investment Theory and Finance.
Prof. Dr. Peter Meier, Director
Head of the Centre of Alternative Investments at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Prof Meier studied at University of St. Gallen where he received a doctoral degree in economics in 1982 and was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University. At the Cantonal Bank of Zurich he was Chief Economist before he started to build up a modern asset management unit for institutional and private portfolios, as well as mutual funds from 1992 to 1998 for the same bank. As CEO of Swissca Portfolio Management, Peter Meier was responsible for one of the larger Swiss institutional asset management companies. His research, consulting and teaching experience range from economics to finance and particularly banking, portfolio management, mutual funds and pension funds. Since 2000 he has published regular articles about alternative investments and hedge funds.
Mr. Tomokazu Oishi, Director
Oishi-san's interests are extensive, covering construction, property development, real estate servicing, medical and human resources. Companies include Global Enterprise Co, Supernurse and Koyokai. Prior to his 20 year history as an entrepreneur, Oishi-san was Head of Business Planning at Subaru-Isuzu Automotive (Fuji Heavy Inds) where he successfully launched a car manufacturing subsidiary by forming a joint venture with Isuzu Motors Co in Indiana state USA with US$800m invested.
Rolf H Küng, Chief Executive Officer
Rolf holds an MBA in Economics, specialized in Reporting and Performance, University of Zurich, and is a Swiss Certified Accountant. Prior of co-founding IFIT, Rolf has been 17 years in the auditing business; He has been a Director of several companies during the past 20 years, focused and experience in business project realization in Europe and Overseas. His specialization is in international controlling and information technology, brought forward as a Co-founder of IFIT Institute and co-developer of the IFIT Institute software used by IFIT. Mr. Küng is Delegate of the Management Board and CEO of IFIT Intstitute For Innovative Trading AG.
Peter Forster, Chief Operating Officer
Peter holds a BA in economics from the Hochschule St Gallen, a Law degree from the University Zurich Law School and was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University. After working for a Swiss IT and Media Consulting Firm, the Sydney based Australian Film Finance Corporation, Credit Suisse and the Swiss Law Firm Lenz & Staehelin, Peter has been working as an independent legal and business consultant with an international client base since 1998. He has represented amongst others, Deutsche Bank Private Equity Fund of Funds, exclusively for Eastern Europe Investors, and ERGO Private Equity in Switzerland. Peter joined IFIT in 2003 as a council and accepted the COO position in 2005.
Richard Johnson, Chief Investment Officer
Prior to joining IFIT, Richard was the CIO and a founding partner at Infiniti Capital AG in Zurich, where he managed the Investment Team and launched and managed the Emerging Manager (Early Stage) Fund of Hedge Funds products, was responsible for manager selection in the Conquistador and Invenio portfolios and was a speaker at conferences in Japan, New York, Australia, Hong Kong Singapore and Indonesia. During a management buy-out, he elected to sell out in April 2008. Richard has extensive Asian experience. In Hong Kong with ABN AMRO as the Head of the Absolute Return Group where he was responsible for building and leading ABN AMRO’s Asian Hedge Fund Sales Group.; at JPMorgan/ Jardine Fleming in Singapore in charge of regional Asian equity sales working closely with the Singapore Equity sales team and Hedge Fund sales, developing trading strategies for Hedge Funds and published Technical Analysis trading strategies. At Nomura Securities he was in Asia Equity Sales covering Asian & Japanese markets. Richard is also a Non- Exec Director at LimeTree Capital and a Consultant to Buckingham Group.
Oliver Saager, Head Compliance and Administration
Oliver graduated from the University of Applied Science (FHNW), Brugg and Basel, with a BSc. (Hons) in Economics and majored in IT-Management and E-Business. He has worked for IFIT Institute For Innovative Trading AG since its formation and joined IFIT fulltime after completing his studies. He is responsible for Company Administration and Business Affairs for both IFIT and its subsidiaries. He became a member of the IFIT Executive Team in 2006.
Maurice Erb, Head Management Information Systems
Maurice has been working for IFIT since 2001 and fully joined the company in February 2007. He studied Law, History, Computer Science and Communication Science at the University of Zurich and is member of a joint doctoral program of the University and ETH Zurich. For more than five years he had been working as a leading software developer for different companies and independent projects, mainly in the area of exchange platforms and business support systems. Prior to joining IFIT he also was involved in the launch and organisation of a postgraduate course at the University of Zurich.