Matthias Reinhart
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Matthias Reinhart

Switzerland 66 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Financial services
Residence
Zurich

Assets

  • VZ Holding AG
    24,428,000 shares @ -
    -
    VZN-CH

Biography

Matthias Reinhart is chairman and majority shareholder of VZ Holding Ltd., a Swiss financial services company he took public in 2007.

After getting his MBA at University of St. Gallen, he worked at McKinsey & Co. in Zurich and Chicago before co-founding VZ in 1993.

VZ's key proposition: bringing transparency to a market that made it hard for customers to compare the prices and benefits of financial products.

The firm does not broker financial products; instead, customers pay a fee for advisory and portfolio-management services.

About

Reinhart is a member of the advisory board of NZZ (Neue Zuercher Zeitung), a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper.

He also sits on the founding board of the Swiss Epilepsy Foundation.