Reto A. Lyk

Reto A. Lyk, Member of Finance and Economic Advisory Board of Grimaldi & Partners Ltd.

30 years in the Asset Management Industry

I graduated in 1970 in law and economics at the University of Bern with magna cum laude (Dr. iur.). I worked for thirty years in the banking industry dealing with securities. For 20 years, I worked at a major Swiss bank, where I was promoted to managing director and was one of the CEO's closest associates. Thereafter I worked for a major foreign bank, where I was member of the managing board. Afterwards I worked for the largest cantonal bank in Switzerland as Responsible for the underwriting and trading and became Deputy of the CEO of the same bank. After leaving the bank I have been working an independent investment expert and I have held various mandates for asset management companies, as well I was president of the supervisory board of a by FINMA recognized self-regulatory organizations (SROs). After that I worked as a member of the board of directors at the Swiss independent asset management company Grimaldi & Partners Ltd.

I have published three books and numerous articles about investments and financial markets and I teach as a lecturer and professor at a University of Applied Sciences and Arts business law, financial management, finance and banking.

I am Swiss. I speak German, English, French, Spanish and Italian.