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David Rideau started his Banking career in 1997 as an intern at Merrill Lynch in San Francisco shortly before graduating from ESSEC Business School in 1998. He would then manage and expand the client portfolio at Détroyat Associés for three years, before joining Portzamparc Société de Bourse (BNP Group) in 2001. He became Head of Cash Equity Sales in 2004. Early 2006, David Rideau decided to join HSBC to cover French equity fund managers. In his position as Director of European Cash Equity Sales, he is responsible for European small- & mid-caps equity sales. Added to that, David Rideau holds a position as external lecturer for Financial Markets at ESSEC Business School.

Jan Viebig is the designated Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Oddo BHF Trust. He has worked as Head of Asset Management at Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers. Before, he was the CEO of Harcourt and Head Alternatives at Vontobel and Head of Emerging Markets Equities at Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland. Previously, he worked from 1999 to 2009 at DWS (Deutsche Bank Group). Initially he was Senior Portfolio Manager for international and emerging markets and later Managing Director and Hedge Fund Manager managing various long/short equity, absolute return and long-only funds in Frankfurt, Germany.

Tammo Andersch has many years of experience in the execution of complex reorganization and refinancing projects.
He developed numerous reorganization concepts for well-known companies of many branches and different sizes and he successfully accompanied them during the realization of restructuring concepts and strategic reorganization concepts until the repositioning and the turnaround.
Before the formation of the company Andersch he has worked about 20 years at KPMG. In 2000 he became partner, in 2002 he was appointed Head of KPMG Restructuring in Germany and, since 2005, he also managed the Restructuring activities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA). During this time, Tammo Andersch lead his team to become one of the leading Restructuring and Financial Advisory teams.
Tammo Andersch has studied economic science at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg and holds an MBA from the Henley Management College (England). Between 1984 and 1993 he was an officer in the German Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).

Kirsten Bremke is responsible for the Client Intelligence unit at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management and globally analyses clients’ preferences. Furthermore, she is responsible for the use of smart data and artificial intelligence to support and automate decision making. She started her career with Deutsche Bank in 1997 as a Credit Risk Manager. In between, she has been a Principal at A.T. Kearney and member of the Central European Financial Institutions Leadership Team.

1992, she graduated from RWTH Aachen with a diploma in Mathematics and then received her PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.

Jasmin joined Citi in 2004 and has been Head of Legal for Germany & Austria since January 2008. She is also responsible as Division Counsel Nordics for Legal support of Citi Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland.

Prior to joining Citi, Jasmin was a lawyer at Linklaters as well as Clifford Chance. She received her PhD in Law from University of Marburg, Germany and was admitted to the German bar in 1999. She studied law at University of Marburg, passed her state exam in 1997 and the bar exam in 1999. Before her studies, she made a bank apprenticeship.

Additionally, she sits on the Board of Trustees of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management since 2013 and on the Advisory Board of the True Sale Initiative GmbH since 2014.

Claire Jones writes about the eurozone economy for the Financial Times, where she is the Frankfurt Bureau Chief. She is based in Frankfurt and before that was in London covering the Bank of England. She studied philosophy and economics from the London School of Economics.