The new COO has a background in aerospace and technology and continues to be involved in these areas.

Geneva-based asset management firm NOTZ STUCKI has appointed Christophe Verbaere as group chief operating officer.

Prior to this role, Verbaere was chief technology officer at fixed income specialist Atlanticomnium in Geneva. He succeeds Patrick Hamon, who has decided – after 10 years with NOTZ STUCKI – to return to his native Brittany.

Starting his career in aerospace and spaceflight, Verbaere began his professional life in 1994 at the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (Paris) as a technical expert on the Ariane series of European space launchers. In 1998, he moved to Geneva to start a new career in financial IT, and has developed his expertise in process optimisation and bank and asset manager digitisation. 

Verbaere continues to be involved in space: he helps technology companies specialising in hypersonic drones, microsatellites and image analysis applied to economic intelligence. 

In addition to a diploma in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from ESTACA (Paris), a risk management and quantitative analysis diploma from HEC (Geneva) and several certificates in finance and portfolio management from ISFB (Geneva), Verbaere trained in data science and artificial intelligence at ENSAI (Paris). 

The firm oversees a total of SFr10 billion of assets under management and is one of Switzerland’s largest independent asset managers.