Julien Froidevaux

Julien Froidevaux is a Director at Piguet Galland & Cie, a private bank boutique belonging to the Banque Cantonale Vaudoise. He has extensive experience in dealing with financial intermediaries and has lead teams covering independent asset managers at several banks, including Lombard Odier, UBS and HSBC. Julien wrote his doctoral thesis on the virtue of independence for asset managers. He is also a lecturer for the Master in Finance at University of Lausanne HEC.

He has more than 30 years of experience in asset management and private banking, with more than half that time spent working with independent asset managers. Julien Froidevaux holds a PHD from Geneva University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Specialties and expertise:

• Multi Family Office - Independent Asset Managers - Financial intermediaries
• Investment funds
• Institutional and Private clients
• Strategic reviews and consulting
• Asset and portfolio management
• De risking and restructuring including interacting with senior regulators
• Complex International projects
• Merger and acquisition
• Report and advice to external boards
• Management of teams and managers
• Board chairing and other various board positions
• Blockchain and cryptocurrencies

Experience

• Executive Vice President - Financial Intermediaries
  Piguet Galland & Cie SA

• Part-Time Lecturer
  HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne

• Senior Lecturer
  ISFB - Institut Supérieur de Formation Bancaire

• Market Head - MFO / External Asset Managers
  HSBC Private Bank

• Head Multi Family Office - Global Financial Intermediaries Suisse romande
  UBS Wealth Management

• Head of Financial Intermediaries
  Bank of China

• Deputy Head, Independent Asset Managers
  Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie

• President
  CFA Society Switzerland

• Head - Investment Fund Services
  ARTHUR ANDERSEN (Official)

• Equity Fund Manager
  BCV - Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

• Auditor / Consultant
  ARTHUR ANDERSEN (Official)

Education

• University of Geneva
  Docteur en Management, Faculté d’Economie et de Management (GSEM), PhD

• CFA Institute
  CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA

• Certified Wealth Management Advisor (CWMA)

• Université de Savoie
  Master II Droit, Economie, et Gestion, Economie - Finance

• Manchester Business School
  ICA Certificate in Anti Money Laundering and Sanctions Compliance, Compliance, With Merit

• ISFB
  Certificat, Formation, Certificat de formation continue de Formateur Occasionnel

• The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
  Annual Investment Management Workshops, Financial Analyst Seminar, Continuing education

• Harvard Business School
  Annual Investment Management Workshop, Continuing Education

• IMD (International Institute for Management Development) - Business Programs
  Management program, Continuing education

• American University - Kogod School of Business
  BSBA, Finance / International Business

• Gymnase de la Cité - Lausanne
  Maturité / Baccalauréat, Mathématiques - Sciences