Helvetian Investment Club

Dr Stefan Schmittmann brings over 30 years' experience in senior leadership roles in the German banking sector to the HIC. A graduate of the University of St. Gallen (HSG), he earned his doctorate in economics before starting his career at Bayerische Vereinsbank (later HypoVereinsbank) in 1986. He became Chief Credit Risk Officer there and later joined the Management Board, where he was responsible for corporate clients and commercial real estate. From 2008 to 2015, he was a member of Commerzbank’s Board of Managing Directors, primarily serving as Chief Risk Officer. From 2018 to 2020, he chaired its Supervisory Board. He now works as an independent consultant.

Professor at the Institute for Applied Data Science & Finance at Bern University of Applied Sciences, and a lecturer at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) since 2019. He spent fifteen years at J.P. Morgan's investment bank as Executive Director before moving to academia. His teaching and research cover corporate finance, capital markets, accounting and artificial intelligence.

Professor of Finance and Accounting and co-head of the subject group at the Institute for Applied Data Science & Finance at Bern University of Applied Sciences. He has held positions at Columbia University as a visiting professor, at the University of Twente and at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), and worked in financial analysis and audit at Siemens and PwC. His work covers financial analysis, investment strategies, asset and wealth management, and sustainable finance.