Meet the team

With diverse backgrounds, we are able to see the world from different angles and bring multi-disciplinary skills to each project. We are a tight international team committed to building a more sustainable and socially conscious future.

 

Born:

Lausanne

Worked:

London, Paris, Zurich, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo

Lives:

Geneva

Christophe Lienhard

Managing Partner

 

Christophe is a Swiss entrepreneur, investor and executive offering more than 20 years’ successful experience in building and growing businesses in the field of E-Commerce, Banking, Payment, Advertising, Software, Internet, Telecom and Wireless. Christophe has the experience to both finance and execute business operations, with expertise in bringing new technology to market from product development, including business development and commercialization.

During his career he has held senior positions within Orange, France Telecom and Swisscom, and has a proven track record in negotiating and closing deals with US, European and Asian customers.

His passion is to build and deploy solutions for the under-served populations providing empowering services originally reserved for privileged minorities.

Christophe holds a MBA in General management from IMD and a BSC in Telecommunication. As Chief Operations Officer of Forbes Digital Commerce, he won the Red Herring Global Awards in 2011.

Born:

Lausanne

Worked:

London, Paris, Zurich, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo

Lives:

Geneva

Born:

Denmark

Worked:

Luxembourg and Copenhagen

Lives:

Luxembourg

Lars Erik Hogh

Senior Advisor

Lars has 25 years of experience within the financial sector, particularly in the investment fund industry.

He began his career with a financial institution in Copenhagen that later formed Nordea. Lars managed a range of fixed income portfolios with Nordea Investment Funds and also developed an alternative product fund range. In 2009, he was appointed CEO of Nordeas fund company in Luxembourg where he left his position in 2014.

Since 2014 Lars has established and maintained a regulated entity in Luxembourg overseeing a €3.1b EUR UCITS and works as a consultant and director in the investment funds industry.
Lars holds a Masters degree in Business and Economics from Copenhagen Business School, is a CFA and FRM charter holder and graduated with an Executive MBA in General Management from IMD in 2006. In addition, he is certified as an International Director (IDP-C) with INSEAD and ILA.  

Born:

Denmark

Worked:

Luxembourg and Copenhagen

Lives:

Luxembourg

Born:

Kyoto, Japan

Worked:

Tokyo, Los Angeles, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Oberhausen, Montpellier

Lives:

Tokyo

Yusuke Kanda

Senior Advisor

Yusuke has been Representative Director & General Manager at Tapjoy in Japan for the last 6 years, responsible for the Japanese business of this US-based mobile ad-tech company.
Previously, he represented three European entities of the Japanese mobile technology company Access Co, and was also President of the European subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo, the number one Japanese mobile operator. During 7 years in DoCoMo he was first engaged in its strategic investment in foreign telecom operators, then led the team to deploy mobile internet service to Europe.

In his early career, he worked for Japan Airlines for 14 years where he had experience of both IT division and route marketing. In the latter, he dealt with various airline companies in Europe and Asia in both commercial and government affairs. 

Yusuke holds a MBA in General Management from IMD (graduated with honors) and a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Born:

Kyoto, Japan

Worked:

Tokyo, Los Angeles, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Oberhausen, Montpellier

Lives:

Tokyo

Born:

New Jersey, USA

Worked:

New York, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, Singapore, Tokyo, San Francisco, Nigeria, Ghana

Lives:

California

Robert Tibbs

Senior Advisor

A global career of more than 30 years as an entrepreneur, investor and executive with several ventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and in the US. Robert is passionate about impact and purpose, about learning and building businesses that are at the intersection of technology and human behavior. 

A dual US and Swiss citizen with exceptional international experience and relationships in both major and emerging markets, Robert has lived and built businesses on four continents, with business experience in nearly 60 countries.

After a truly extraordinary personal journey that originated from very humble yet caring beginnings, Robert works with his own company and other organizations that are focused on helping others realize the magnificent breadth of their own lives, while creating value along the way.

Featured in the film, “Blacks without Borders”, Robert is a US military veteran and summa cum laude graduate in Behavioral Science from the Institute of Technology of State University of New York.

Born:

New Jersey, USA

Worked:

New York, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, Singapore, Tokyo, San Francisco

Lives:

California