About the swissQuant Group
Founded in 2005 as an ETH Spin-off, the swissQuant Group has catapulted itself to one of the most trusted global business partners today in the world of Intelligent Technology. With currently over 90 highly competent individuals, we pride ourselves in taking your most complex business needs and demands and transforming them into key components of a viable digital strategy for tomorrow. Using sophisticated mathematical methods and well-designed software, we shape your core business and allow you to take advantage of opportunity and avoid risk. Your growth and survival depends on it.
Mathematics has explained a.o. the core of living existence since the Cambrian explosion and as a result enabled humans to solve a large number of real world optimization problems. The swissQuant Group is built on the firm belief that civilization can only evolve by learning from nature and linking nature’s intelligence to real world problems in order to create sophisticated optimization solutions. Our exceptional Quant-DNA makes us a unique company with the potential to solve complex problems across different industries such as Private Banking, Health Care, Clearing, Asset-Management, Insurance and many more.
Located in the heart of Zurich, our dedicated team is active globally and open to digital challenges of any size or nature.
Intelligent Technologies and sophisticated methodologies for global leaders
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Committed solution providers with the fascination for applied sciences.
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Behind swissQuant
Dr. Lorenz M. Schumann
Chairman
Founder, entrepreneur and member of several boards across various industries. Business leader with international industrial experience in the energy and consumer goods sectors. Investment Manager with long track-record of large size investment portfolios and comprehensive risk management capabilities.
Thomas Gross
Member
Owner and Chairman of a production company. Partner in an IT company focused on the health care industry. Self-employed consultant in his company in Winterthur. Previously Head Securities Operations with a large bank, thereafter CEO of a Swiss provider of financial information and as such Division Head and Member of the Executive Board of the Group.
Dr. Basil Heeb
Member
Expert in finance and risk with extensive experience in Banking and Asset Management. CFO of a private bank. Partner in a global consulting firm with focus on retail and private banking in Switzerland, Europe and USA.
Patrick Z’Brun
Member
Entrepreneur and member of several boards across various industries as well as Founder of a foundation. Business leader with proven competences and substantial entrepreneurial experiences in the industry and Life Science sector.
Dr. Lorenz M. Schumann
Chairman
Founder, entrepreneur and member of several boards across various industries. Business leader with international industrial experience in the energy and consumer goods sectors. Investment Manager with long track-record of large size investment portfolios and comprehensive risk management capabilities.
Prof. Dr. Artur Avila
Member
Artur Avila is full professor of mathematics at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. For his profound contributions to these research fields he was awarded the Fields Medal – the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in mathematics – at the age of 35.
Prof. Dr. Ashkan Nikeghbali
Member
Full Professor for Mathematics, Universität Zürich. Expert in Mathematical Finance, Random matrix theory, limit theorems for complex systems, Analytic number theory.
Dr. Michel M. Dacorogna
Member
Partner, Researcher in the field of insurance mathematics, capital management and risks. Member of the board of the Research Center on Insurance Risk at the Nanyang Technical University of Singapore. Author and co-author of more than 85 publications in refereed scientific journals. Lecturer at ETH and University of Zurich, at the University Ca’Foscari in Venice (Italy) and at the University of Turin (Italy).
Prof. Dr. Markus Leippold
Member
Markus Leippold is a Professor at the Department of Banking at Finance of the University of Zurich and holds the Chair in Financial Engineering. Markus’ main research interests are term structure modelling, asset pricing, and risk management. He has published in several Journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Management Science, Annals of Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He were awarded with several international prizes.