Perennium

Team

Management

Arnaud Apffel, CEO

Arnaud founded PERENNIUM in 2013 as a responsible investment boutique, bringing expert and unbiased advice to nonprofit clients in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

32 years of experience in the financial industry (Paris, London, Geneva)

Investment Banking and Asset & Wealth Management
• MD and Head of Strategic Equity EMEA at Goldman Sachs
• Co Head of Global Investment Services at Lombard Odier
• Head of Global Investments for Deutsche Bank Wealth Management EMEA
• Registered banking & finance expert with the Civil Court (Geneva Canton)
• Adjunct professor at HEC Paris Business School (investments / SRI)
• Founding Board member of the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation
• Master’s in Management (“Grande Ecole”) from HEC Paris Business School (1991).

Olivier Dupraz , CIO

Olivier joined PERENNIUM as partner and CIO in early 2021, leading the development of wealth management services for large private clients and families.

34 years of experience in the financial industry (New York, London, Zürich, Geneva)

Investment banking and Asset & Wealth management
• CIO of Goldman Sachs Bank
• CIO and Partner of Darier Hentsch & Cie
• MD at Ecofin (hedge fund)
• MD & Head of Global Key Clients Solutions Group at UBS
• Director, UHNWI and Family Offices (Europe) for Pictet Wealth Management
• Board Member of Fondation Gustave Ador and of Association FXB International.
• Licence, Political Sciences / International Relations, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1984).
• MBA, Emory University, Goizueta Business School, Rotary Scholar, Atlanta, Georgia (1988).

Anne Waldburger Berthenet

Anne has been PERENNIUM's head of Compliance since 2018...

... for its wealth management activities, under a delegation agreement with Compliance Angels Sàrl.

20 years of experience in the financial sector for banks and consulting firms in the regulatory and compliance field (Geneva)

• Currently: Managing Partner of Compliance Angels
• Master in Law from the University of Geneva (1994)
• Master in Economics from HEC Geneva (1996)
• Attorney-at-law (Geneva Bar, 1999)

Inès de Chargères

Inès is the Head of Porfolio Analytics and Consolidation.

12 years of experience in the financial industry (Milan, Paris, Geneva)

Project Finance

• Closing of advisory and arranging transactions, for private and governmental institutions, in Europe and Middle East, for BNP Paribas
• Portfolio monitoring and optimization, for BNP Paribas
• Certificate of Competence in Financial Controlling, Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers (2017)
• Master in Banking and Finance, Paris Dauphine University (2002)
• Licence in Banking and Finance, Nantes University (2001)

Advisory Board

Maryline Kulawik

26 years of experience in the financial industry (London, Paris): mergers & acquisitions (BNP Paribas), venture capital (Galileo Partners, Elaia Partners), asset management (Spice Capital)...

26 years of experience in the financial industry (London, Paris): mergers & acquisitions (BNP Paribas), venture capital (Galileo Partners, Elaia Partners), asset management (Spice Capital).

Currently: Managing Partner of Spice Capital LLP (London), Private Equity, Private debt and portfolio management for Family Offices.

Board Member of several nonprofits.
French Foreign Trade Advisor.

Master (“Grande Ecole”) from HEC Paris (1994), Entrepreneurship.
LLM Private Law from Panthéon Sorbonne University (1995).

Arnaud de Servigny

31 years of experience, 23 of which in the financial industry (New York, London, Paris): quantitative analytics (Standard & Poor’s) and asset management (MD at Barclays Wealth, Global CIO at Deutsche Bank WM).

Currently: CEO at Queensfield AI Technologies, a company blending AI and money management techniques.

Adjunct professor at Imperial College Business School in London (financial engineering, risk management).

Non Executive Director for BNP Paribas Asset Management France and Impax Asset Management.

MSc in Civil Engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris (1987), MSc in Quantitative Finance (DEA) from Paris Dauphine University (1989), PhD in Financial Economics from Panthéon Sorbonne University (1997).

Franklin Servan Schreiber

30 years of experience in media, tech, sport and philanthropy sectors (including Communication Director for the IOC, Senior Executive of the Race for Water Foundation, advisor to the president of the World Economic Forum).

Currently: CEO of Transmutex SA (revolutionary nuclear technology for the transmutation of long lived nuclear waste).

BS Electrical Engineering, Carnergie Mellon University (1986).
MS Applied History, Carnegie Mellon University (1988).

Our past experience leading investment management for top tier banks gives us the network and the recognition. Our current set up at Perennium gives us the freedom of mind and action.

We start by listening. We invest the time needed to reach the required level of trust and mutual understanding without which we cannot succeed.

Investing is our passion. We think about the world and financial markets 24/7

Investing is not about knowing the future; it is about preparing a portfolio for a range of probabilistic outcomes.

We are fiercely independent. We never have and never will accept retrocessions or commissions from financial services providers.

In order to manage financial wealth, independence is much more important than size or scale. To the contrary, size can be detrimental.

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