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Matthias Reinhart
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Financial services
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Zurich
Assets
- VZ Holding AG24,428,000 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.